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<a href="#obtaining-signify">Obtaining signify</a>
</h3>
- <p>To verify the download of the OS beyond the security offered by HTTPS, you need the
- signify tool. If you don't have a way to obtain signify from a trusted package
- repository, such as on Windows, skip the additional verification. This is an important
- step, but it only makes sense if you can chain trust from your existing OS
- install.</p>
+ <p>To verify the download of the OS beyond the security offered by HTTPS, you can use
+ the signify tool. If you do not have a way to obtain signify from a package repository
+ you're already trusting, it does not make sense to use it. GrapheneOS releases are
+ hosted on our servers and we do not have third party mirrors. A compromised signify
+ would be able to compromise your OS and the GrapheneOS download due to the lack of an
+ application security model on traditional operating systems. It would be worse than
+ not trying to verify the signatures. It's far less likely that our servers would be
+ compromised than someone's GitHub account or GitHub itself. You're already trusting
+ these installation instructions from our site, which is hosted on the same static web
+ server infrastructure as the releases.</p>
<p>On many distributions, signify is available via a <code>signify</code> package in
the official repositories. On Debian-based distributions like Ubuntu, the package and
- command name were renamed to <code>signify-openbsd</code>. Following Debian tradition,
+ command were renamed to <code>signify-openbsd</code>. Following Debian tradition,
the <code>signify</code> package and command are an <a
href="http://signify.sourceforge.net/">unmaintained mail-related tool for generating
mail signatures (not cryptographic signatures) with the final 3 releases from