Thanks, Ryan. It's resolved now. When I got your email, I decided to do something I probably should have thought of doing before. I went into my Debian OS (which I am in the process of reinstalling) and I tried retrieving the public keys using the signing keys from the same place ( https://www.debian.org/CD/verify ) within Debian, following the commands you suggested. Of course, I was able to retrieve them. Then what I did was go back to windows and try Kleopatra instead of Privacy Assistant, and it worked! What a relief! There's some problem with Privacy Assistant. Perhaps having it installed on the same Windows system with GPA Privacy Assistant? I don't know. Thanks again, Leonard
On Mon, Oct 5, 2020 at 2:20 PM Ryan Nowakowski <tuba...@fattuba.com> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 01, 2020 at 06:21:54PM -0400, leonard morin wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I want to reinstall Debian but first verify the signature of the > installer > > checksum and the signature file. I am working with Windows and based this > > process on this video by Crypto Dad: > > > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7oE0QaK540 > > > > I was able to download the GPG4Win and verify it with the Shasum Checker, > > also as per Crypto Dad: > > > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZ2GrQA_ye8 > > > > I followed his instructions to check the signature and checksum for the > > Debian installer in (GNU Privacy Assistant). I get the message that there > > is no public key. When I follow his process to retrieve the public key at > > https://www.debian.org/CD/verify > > I get the message in GPA "No keys were found" for all the IDs and > > fingerprints on the page. Should I be obtaining the public key elsewhere? > > Or should I do something else differently? > > > > You should be able to get the keys from the debian key > server(keyring.debug.org). Here's any example using gpg from the > command-line: > > tubaman@potts:~$ gpg --keyserver keyring.debian.org --recv-keys > 6BD05CFB > gpg: key 42468F4009EA8AC3: "Debian Testing CDs Automatic Signing Key < > debian...@lists.debian.org>" not changed > gpg: Total number processed: 1 > gpg: unchanged: 1 > tubaman@potts:~$ gpg --fingerprint 6BD05CFB > pub rsa4096 2014-04-15 [SC] > F41D 3034 2F35 4669 5F65 C669 4246 8F40 09EA 8AC3 > uid [ unknown] Debian Testing CDs Automatic Signing Key < > debian...@lists.debian.org> > sub rsa4096 2014-04-15 [E] > > Perhaps you can translate that into your Windows tools? Here some more > info on Debian's gpg key server: https://keyring.debian.org/ > >
