user@user~/Downloads$ gpg --verify eps-v0.2.0.tar.gz.asc electrum-personal-server-windows-release-v0.2.0.zip.asc
You're not verifying what you think you're verifying... You're trying to verify one .asc file, using another .asc file!!?!
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You need to verify the matching binary file that goes with the .asc (ie. the ".tar.gz" or the ".zip")...
Try:
gpg --verify eps-v0.2.0.tar.gz.asc electrum-personal-server-eps-v0.2.0.tar.gz
or
gpg --verify electrum-personal-server-windows-release-v0.2.0.zip.asc electrum-personal-server-windows-release-v0.2.0.zip
Theoretically, you could just use "gpg --verify the_binary_filename
.asc"... but ONLY if the .asc file has exactly the same name as the .zip file... so, it'd work with the windows_release .zip...
"electrum-personal-server-windows-release-v0.2.0.zip.asc" == "electrum-personal-server-windows-release-v0.2.0.zip" + .asc
So, this works:
gpg --verify electrum-personal-server-windows-release-v0.2.0.zip.asc
user@user~/Downloads$ gpg --verify electrum-personal-server-windows-release-v0.2.0.zip.asc
gpg: assuming signed data in 'electrum-personal-server-windows-release-v0.2.0.zip'
gpg: Signature made Thu Dec 5 23:57:57 2019 NZDT
gpg: using RSA key EF734EA677F31129
gpg: Good signature from "Chris Belcher <
false@email.com>" [unknown]
But, it won't work with the .tar.gz as it has a different name to the .asc
"eps-v0.2.0.tar.gz.asc" =/= "electrum-personal-server-eps-v0.2.0.tar.gz" +.asc
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user@user~/Downloads$ gpg --verify eps-v0.2.0.tar.gz.asc
gpg: no signed data
gpg: can't hash datafile: No data
You could also just rename the "tar.gz.asc" from "eps-v0.2.0.tar.gz.asc" to "electrum-personal-server-eps-v0.2.0.tar.gz.asc" and then the command would work:
user@user~/Downloads$ gpg --verify electrum-personal-server-eps-v0.2.0.tar.gz.asc
gpg: assuming signed data in 'electrum-personal-server-eps-v0.2.0.tar.gz'
gpg: Signature made Thu Dec 5 22:51:58 2019 NZDT
gpg: using RSA key EF734EA677F31129
gpg: Good signature from "Chris Belcher <
false@email.com>" [unknown]