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authorThomas Waldmann <tw@waldmann-edv.de>2016-09-03 18:41:27 +0200
committerThomas Waldmann <tw@waldmann-edv.de>2016-09-03 19:23:40 +0200
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add release signing key / security contact to README, fixes #1560
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@@ -114,6 +114,22 @@ Now doing another backup, just to show off the great deduplication:
For a graphical frontend refer to our complementary project `BorgWeb <https://borgweb.readthedocs.io/>`_.
+Checking Release Authenticity and Security Contact
+==================================================
+
+`Releases <https://github.com/borgbackup/borg/releases>`_ are signed with this GPG key,
+please use GPG to verify their authenticity.
+
+In case you discover a security issue, please use this contact for reporting it privately
+and please, if possible, use encrypted E-Mail:
+
+Thomas Waldmann <tw@waldmann-edv.de>
+
+GPG Key Fingerprint: 6D5B EF9A DD20 7580 5747 B70F 9F88 FB52 FAF7 B393
+
+The public key can be fetched from any GPG keyserver, but be careful: you must
+use the **full fingerprint** to check that you got the correct key.
+
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