<p>There appears to be a folder in the Electrum repository where contributors share copies of their public keys: <a href="https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/tree/master/pubkeys" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/tree/master/pubkeys</a></p>
<p>You should be able to download and import the key from there. I was also able to get a copy of the key from both keyserver.ubuntu.com and keys.openpgp.org, so I'm a bit surprised that it wouldn't work out of the box. Maybe do check twice that everything matches up.</p>
<p>Edit: When you import a key, it will only be known to your key database. However, if you want a level of trust to be associated with a key, you still need to specify that you trust the key. Perhaps this was the step that is missing?</p>

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<p>I'm trying to reinstall Electrum but cannot find Thomas Voegtlin's public key using GPG Suite, so cannot verify the downloaded Electrum software. Do I just need to keep trying or is there an alternative?</p>

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GPG Suite cannot find Thomas Voegtlin's public key for Electrum
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# GPG Suite cannot find Thomas Voegtlin's public key for Electrum

(Asked by: username_0 on 2022-05-20)

I'm trying to reinstall Electrum but cannot find Thomas Voegtlin's public key using GPG Suite, so cannot verify the downloaded Electrum software. Do I just need to keep trying or is there an alternative?

**Tags:** electrum, public-key


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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2022-05-20. Score: 2

There appears to be a folder in the Electrum repository where contributors share copies of their public keys: <https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/tree/master/pubkeys>

You should be able to download and import the key from there. I was also able to get a copy of the key from both keyserver.ubuntu.com and keys.openpgp.org, so I'm a bit surprised that it wouldn't work out of the box. Maybe do check twice that everything matches up.

Edit: When you import a key, it will only be known to your key database. However, if you want a level of trust to be associated with a key, you still need to specify that you trust the key. Perhaps this was the step that is missing?


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