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Better document how to verify PGP signature
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Add text clarifying our unusual packaging of the PGP signature inside
a tar file.

ticket: 7927
target_version: 1.13
tags: pullup
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tlyu committed Oct 14, 2014
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The source code can be obtained from MIT Kerberos Distribution page,
at http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/dist/index.html.
The MIT Kerberos distribution comes in an archive file, generally named
krb5-VERSION.tar, where *VERSION* is a placeholder for the major and minor
versions of MIT Kerberos. (For example, MIT Kerberos 1.9
has major version "1" and minor version "9".)

The krb5-VERSION.tar contains a compressed tar file consisting of the
sources for all of Kerberos (generally krb5-VERSION.tar.gz) and
a PGP signature file for this source tree (generally
krb5-VERSION.tar.gz.asc). MIT highly recommends that you verify
the integrity of the source code using this signature.
The MIT Kerberos distribution comes in an archive file, generally
named krb5-VERSION-signed.tar, where *VERSION* is a placeholder for
the major and minor versions of MIT Kerberos. (For example, MIT
Kerberos 1.9 has major version "1" and minor version "9".)

The krb5-VERSION-signed.tar contains a compressed tar file consisting
of the sources for all of Kerberos (generally named
krb5-VERSION.tar.gz) and a PGP signature file for this source tree
(generally named krb5-VERSION.tar.gz.asc). MIT highly recommends that
you verify the integrity of the source code using this signature,
e.g., by running::

tar xf krb5-VERSION-signed.tar
gpg --verify krb5-VERSION.tar.gz.asc

Unpack krb5-VERSION.tar.gz in some directory. In this section we will assume
that you have chosen the top directory of the distribution the directory
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