Signature Verification

Import LEAP’s key
1. Option 1 – wget
2. Option 2 – search keyservers
Download signature file
Verify signature

Many of the files available for download from this site have been signed. This page will walk you through what you need to do in order to verify these signatures. This process is entirely optional.

NOTE: Installation of Android and Mac apps will have their signatures verified automatically. However, we provide signatures for these files if you wish to verify them manually with the process below.

Import LEAP’s key

All the files have been signed with the “LEAP archive signing key”. The first step is to import this key into your local keyring. These instructions will use gpg, a free implementation of OpenPGP that works on Mac, Windows, and Linux.

Option 1 – wget

The easiest way to get the LEAP archive signing key is to just download it from the bitmask.net website and import into your keyring:

wget -O- dl.bitmask.net/apt.key | gpg --import

You should see output that looks like this:

gpg: key 0x1E34A1828E207901: public key "LEAP archive signing key <sysdev@leap.se>" imported
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg:               imported: 1  (RSA: 1)
gpg: 3 marginal(s) needed, 1 complete(s) needed, classic trust model
gpg: depth: 0  valid:   4  signed:   7  trust: 0-, 0q, 0n, 0m, 0f, 4u
gpg: depth: 1  valid:   7  signed:  22  trust: 6-, 1q, 0n, 0m, 0f, 0u

Option 2 – search keyservers

Alternately, you can import the LEAP archive signing key by fetching from a keyserver:

gpg --recv-key 1E453B2CE87BEE2F7DFE99661E34A1828E207901

If you want to make the keyserver connection use TLS, you can use the sks-keyserver pool. To use this keyserver pool, you will need to download the sks-keyservers.net CA and save it somewhere on your machine. Additionally, you can verify the certificate’s finger print.

Once you have downloaded the SKS keyserver pool CA, the recv-key command looks like this:

gpg --keyserver hkps://pool.sks-keyservers.net --keyserver-options 'ca-cert-file=sks-keyservers.netCA.pem' --recv-key 1E453B2CE87BEE2F7DFE99661E34A1828E207901

Assuming you saved the CA certificate to the file sks-keyservers.netCA.pem. For more information, see this OpenPGP best practices page.

There is absolutely no guarentee that the key just imported with recv-key is the one you just requested. To confirm, you need to manually check the fingerprint:

gpg --fingerprint 1E453B2CE87BEE2F7DFE99661E34A1828E207901

Which should produce output like so:

pub   4096R/0x1E34A1828E207901 2013-02-06 [expires: 2015-02-07]
      Key fingerprint = 1E45 3B2C E87B EE2F 7DFE  9966 1E34 A182 8E20 7901
uid                 [  undef ] LEAP archive signing key <sysdev@leap.se>

Download signature file

The signature file for each download has the same name as the file but with .asc appended.

For a listing of the available signature files, see:

Make sure you put the signature file and the download you want to authenticate in the same directory, and that they have the same name (other than the .asc suffix for the signature file).

Verify signature

Now, just run this command:

gpg --verify FILE.asc

Where FILE is the name of the download you want to authenticate.

You should see some output like so:

gpg: Signature made Mon 15 Sep 2014 07:49:07 AM PDT
gpg:                using RSA key 0x1E34A1828E207901
gpg: Good signature from "LEAP archive signing key <sysdev@leap.se>" [unknown]
gpg: WARNING: This key is not certified with a trusted signature!
gpg:          There is no indication that the signature belongs to the owner.
Primary key fingerprint: 1E45 3B2C E87B EE2F 7DFE  9966 1E34 A182 8E20 7901

If you have trusted one of the keys that has signed the LEAP key, then you will not see the warning.

If you do not see the text Good signature from "LEAP archive signing key <sysdev@leap.se>" then something is wrong and you should not run the application you downloaded.