# Allow the users to verify the downloads for desktop

**URL:** <https://forum.delta.chat/t/allow-the-users-to-verify-the-downloads-for-desktop/2953>\
**Category:** Feature Proposal\
**Tags:** desktop\
**Created:** [March 2, 2024, 12:38pm UTC](https://forum.delta.chat/t/allow-the-users-to-verify-the-downloads-for-desktop/2953 "2024-03-02T12:38:12Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 17, 2024, 12:16am UTC](https://forum.delta.chat/t/allow-the-users-to-verify-the-downloads-for-desktop/2953/3 "2024-03-17T00:16:49Z")

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In the following forum thread from 2021 Jikstra says it should probably be easy to get the release script to upload a checksum.txt with checksums of all the uploaded files:

> [@How can I verify the AppImage?](https://support.delta.chat/t/how-can-i-verify-the-appimage/1757):
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> I downloaded the Delta Chat AppImage. I could not find any checksum or PGP-signature or instructions on how to verify my download. How can this be done?

And then to simply sign the checksum.txt and upload the signature shouldn’t be hard I would think (but there could be difficulties involved which I don’t understand).

Compared to all the work writing and testing the Delta Chat code, I imagine that signing a checksum.txt file would be pretty quick and straight forward, and it would give many users more confidence that they downloaded the right code.

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