# Pretty Good Privacy (PGP)
https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Pretty_Good_Privacy
## Verifying a installer using a PGP Key
### [[Bisq]] has a great guide for verifying their own software
https://bisq.wiki/Downloading_and_installing
Requires gnupg
```
brew install gnupg
```
Grab Christoph Atteneder (ripcurlx)'s GPG key in a verifiable method:
```
curl https://bisq.network/pubkey/29CDFD3B.asc | gpg --import
```
- Using your knowledge that the [[GitHub]] repo is valid, verify that `ripcurlx` on Github wrote the software https://github.com/bisq-network/bisq/commits?author=ripcurlx
- Verify that `ripcurlx` on Github attests to his PGP key listed on keybase: https://gist.github.com/ripcurlx/d15505d9cd2256a1ae54e88714062df0
![[Screen Shot 2021-08-04 at 8.24.08 AM.png]]
- Get his PGP key according to Keybase here: https://keybase.io/ripcurlx
![[Screen Shot 2021-08-04 at 8.15.54 AM.png]]
With the installer file and installer signature file in the same directory, run:
```
gpg --digest-algo SHA256 --verify <SIGNATURE-FILE>.asc
```
See the results!
![[Screen Shot 2021-08-04 at 8.18.30 AM.png]]
### Verifying [[Mullvad]] installation
See [[Mullvad#Verifying Signatures]]
## Securing your PGP key
Advice (from Philip)
- Leave it on computer
- Make it user read/write only using [[chmod]]
- Ensure hard drive has full disk encryption