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Created Jul 26, 2019 by Trac@tracbot

Tor Support Portal "How can I verify Tor Browser's signature" has inaccurate instructions that can prevent signature verification of Tor Browser

At https://support.torproject.org/tbb/how-to-verify-signature/,

the subsection macOS and Linux" / For macOS users presents instructions to mac OS users to run terminal command

gpg --verify ~/Downloads/TorBrowser-8.0.8-osx64_en-US.dmg{.asc,}

On macOS, running that command returns terminal output

gpg: no valid OpenPGP data found.

gpg: the signature could not be verified.

Please remember that the signature file (.sig or .asc)

should be the first file given on the command line.

However, running terminal command

gpg --verify ~/Downloads/{.asc,} TorBrowser-8.0.8-osx64_en-US.dmg

returns terminal output

gpg: Signature made Mon Jul 8 03:56:12 2019 PDT

gpg: using RSA key EB774491D9FF06E2

gpg: Good signature from "Tor Browser Developers (signing key) <torbrowser@torproject.org>"

If we instruct new Tor Browser users, who might become discouraged by the terminal return

gpg: no valid OpenPGP data found.

gpg: the signature could not be verified.

Please remember that the signature file (.sig or .asc)

should be the first file given on the command line.

to instead run terminal command

gpg --verify ~/Downloads/{.asc,} TorBrowser-8.0.8-osx64_en-US.dmg,

perhaps more Tor Browser users with less experience might complete a proper verification of Tor Browser's signature, and Tor Browser might gain more new users.

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