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: 791888c97be8ec303c08686879e5fe31 vanessa_socket-0.0.9.tar.bz2 b63fb0f22938ceec7eec3c77cfcae69b vanessa_socket-0.0.9.tar.gz SHA1 Checksums: 7e055aacdc3afece0059091c7fdc6773d922b522 vanessa_socket-0.0.9.tar.bz2 b09fd2b1abcc0ffe9625b9d6f5fd231963de396f vanessa_socket-0.0.9.tar.gz SHA256 Checksums: f1ac0005282613844f9f907b116ca367ffdd7d39180e5852385870bcd024afd0 vanessa_socket-0.0.9.tar.bz2 4515b4857f090ee0ef7d38a79f02271a9df01e6df6a8380300fb02afdd7d0123 vanessa_socket-0.0.9.tar.gz