Signed with the key of Horms which can be found on key servers as id 0x05410E97 and is available at http://www.vergenet.net/~horms/key To verify the signature using gpg run: gpg --keyserver keyring.debian.org --keyserver-options auto-key-retrieve --verify checksums.asc checksums To generate the checksums, use the md5sums and sha1sums commands MD5 Checksums: 3c85fb02a1bd0116879928438af355cd vanessa_socket-0.0.8.tar.gz SHA1 Checksums: 9f8e01c8c0d6e2db3d8e41865bbbd4b127cbddba vanessa_socket-0.0.8.tar.gz SHA256 Checksums: 142c13c90774025c3869a0c72eab0ffaa5261c4ea69b509e8c40685efbee88b9 vanessa_socket-0.0.8.tar.gz