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Authenticity

Christian Rackerseder edited this page Oct 20, 2026 · 11 revisions

Introduction

You can check the authenticity of our Windows wrapper when you compare it's Certificate Fingerprint & File Checksum. These values are listed on our Download page.

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Windows: Check File Checksum

  • certUtil -hashfile ./WireSetup.exe SHA256

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Remove spaces from checksum: "ed a5 f6...".replace(/ /g, '');

Note

certUtil is part of Visual Studio's "ClickOnce Publishing Tools".

Windows: Check Certificate Fingerprint (Windows Fingerprint)

The fingerprint does not change unless we use a new certificate. It can be verified using the the certificate details on WireSetup.exe:

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macOS: Verify checksums and signature

  1. Import Wire's PGP signing key into GPG to verify the downloaded files.

  2. Verify the checksum file's signature via gpg

     gpg --verify sha256sum.txt.asc
    
  3. Verify the downloaded files via checksum file

    • shasum -a 256 -c sha256sum.txt.asc

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