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title: 'Release media signatures'
navtitle: 'Signatures'
nav1: downloads
nav2: signatures
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<p>
  Our current releases are signed with either of these keys <strong>or any sub keys:</strong>
</p>

<br>

<table class="table table-striped">
  <tr>
    <th>Key Fingerprint</th>
    <th>Description</th>
    <th>Created</th>
    <th>Expiry</th>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td><kbd>13EBBDBEDE7A12775DFDB1BABB572E0E2D182910</kbd></td>
    <td>Gentoo Linux Release Engineering (Automated Weekly Release Key)</td>
    <td>2009-08-25</td>
    <td>2022-07-01</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td><kbd>DCD05B71EAB94199527F44ACDB6B8C1F96D8BF6D</kbd></td>
    <td>Gentoo ebuild repository signing key (Automated Signing Key)</td>
    <td>2011-11-25</td>
    <td>2022-07-01</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td><kbd>EF9538C9E8E64311A52CDEDFA13D0EF1914E7A72</kbd></td>
    <td><a rel='external' href='https://github.com/gentoo-mirror/'>Gentoo repository mirrors</a> (automated git signing key)</td>
    <td>2018-05-28</td>
    <td>2022-07-01</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td><kbd>D99EAC7379A850BCE47DA5F29E6438C817072058</kbd></td>
    <td>Gentoo Linux Release Engineering (Gentoo Linux Release Signing Key)</td>
    <td>2004-07-20</td>
    <td>2022-01-01</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td><kbd>ABD00913019D6354BA1D9A132839FE0D796198B1</kbd></td>
    <td>Gentoo Authority Key L1</td>
    <td>2019-04-01</td>
    <td>2022-07-01</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td><kbd>18F703D702B1B9591373148C55D3238EC050396E</kbd></td>
    <td>Gentoo Authority Key L2 for Services</td>
    <td>2019-04-01</td>
    <td>2022-07-01</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td><kbd>2C13823B8237310FA213034930D132FF0FF50EEB</kbd></td>
    <td>Gentoo Authority Key L2 for Developers</td>
    <td>2019-04-01</td>
    <td>2022-07-01</td>
  </tr>
</table>

<br>

<div class="panel panel-default">
  <div class="panel-heading">
    <h3 class="panel-title"><span class="fa fa-fw fa-check-circle-o"></span> Verifying files</h3>
  </div>
  <div class="panel-body">
    <p>To verify downloaded files are not tampered with, you need the <tt>.DIGESTS</tt> file matching your release and the matching key from the table above.</p>

    <p>Fetch the key:</p>

    <p><kbd>gpg --keyserver hkps://hkps.pool.sks-keyservers.net --recv-keys &lt;key fingerprint&gt;</kbd></p>

    <p>Verify the <tt>DIGESTS</tt> file:</p>

    <p><kbd>gpg --verify &lt;foo.DIGESTS.asc&gt;</kbd></p>

    <p>Verify the download matches the digests. At least one of the following will exist:</p>

    <p><kbd>sha512sum -c &lt;foo.DIGESTS.asc&gt;</kbd></p>
    <p><kbd>sha256sum -c &lt;foo.DIGESTS.asc&gt;</kbd></p>
    <p><kbd>sha1sum -c &lt;foo.DIGESTS.asc&gt;</kbd></p>

    <br>

    <div class="alert alert-info">
      Detailed instructions are available in the <a href="https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:Main_Page" class="alert-link">Gentoo Handbook</a>.
    </div>
  </div>
</div>