How to verify authenticity of Nxt and Ardor installations

How to verify authenticity of Nxt and Ardor installations

Information presented for Ardor is also relevant for Nxt

Windows exe:
Right click, Properties, Digital Signatures Tab, Name of Signer should be "Stichting NXT"

Mac DMG file:
1. Open the DMG file to create the Ardor Installer application
2. From the command like issue the following command:
  1. codesign --verify -v /Applications/ardor-installer.app
The output should be:
  1. valid on disk
For more a verbose output use:
  1. codesign -dv --verbose=4 /Applications/ardor-installer.app
Linux .sh and .zip files
  1. sha256sum <file name> 
The result should match the sha256 hash published on https://nxtforum.org/ by account Jelurida

Android mobile app:
  1. sha256sum <file name> 
The result should match the sha256 hash published on https://nxtforum.org/ by account Riker

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