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Comment by SkiFire13

6 months ago

Supposedly you would get the GPG key from somewhere else, ideally through a web of trust, although I find it hard to do in practice

Even if you don't get the public key through a web of trust, you download it "once" not every time you download a file, then you keep using it until it expires.

You also typically download it from a different place than the storage location of the signed binary artifacts. This means that an adversary will have a hard time trying to replace a public key and remain undetected.