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GnuPG, a common free software implementation of OpenPGP has versions and graphical frontends for Windows.

Gpg4win, for Windows. Getting a GnuPG version for Windows in a secure way

You will find on this websites detailed documentation on how to install and use them.

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After installing Gpg4win, download the Whonix Signing Key.

Consult the Gpg4win documentation to import it.

Using Kleopatra is really cumbersome. As long as the signing key is only listed under "other certificates" in Kleopatra, you will get "Not enough information to check signature validity". The signing key needs to be listed under "trusted certificates". To do that, you need to create your own OpenPGP key first. You could do that using (Kleopatra -> File -> New Certificate). To sign Whonix's singing key, right click on it and click "Certify Certificate". Creating local signature suffices.

Then, download the cryptographic signature corresponding to the virtual machine image you want to verify:
Whonix Signature

Consult the Gpg4win documentation to check the signature.

If you see "Not enough information to check signature validity" as shown below.

<translate>Kleopatra Not enough information to check signature validity</translate>

Then you either did not import Whonix's signing key or you did not sign Whonix's signing key with your own key.

If you see.

Signature valid.
Signed on 2014-04-13 06:52 with unknown certificate
0x63979B28A6F37C43BE30AFA1CB8D50BB77BB3C48

This is a bug in kleopatra which they have not fixed since 2011.

For this reasons, you are probably better off using gpg command line. Instructions similar to:

• Verify the virtual machine images using the command line
• https://www.torproject.org/docs/verifying-signatures.html.en (scroll down to windows)

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Try using ls instead of gpg first to confirm existence of the files before using gpg.

When a GPG error is encountered, first try a web search for the relevant error. The security stackexchange website can also help to resolve GPG problems. Describe the problem thoroughly, but be sure it is GPG-related and not specific to Kicksecure.

More help resources are available on the Support page.

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Whonix Verify_the_virtual_machine_images_using_Windows wiki page Copyright (C) Amnesia <amnesia at boum dot org> Whonix Verify_the_virtual_machine_images_using_Windows wiki page Copyright (C) 2012 -2014 Patrick Schleizer <adrelanos@riseup.net>

This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details see the wiki source code. This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions; see the wiki source code for details.

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