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Distributed Cryptography

Install on Mac

There is one download for each kind of Mac. To know which one you have, open the Apple menu and choose About This Mac: it says Chip: Apple M1 (or M2, M3…) on an Apple Silicon Mac, and Processor: Intel on an Intel Mac.

  1. Download the current version for your Mac:

  2. Check the file. Open Terminal in the folder where you saved it and run:

    Terminal window
    shasum -a 256 DistributedCryptography-Mac-AppleSilicon.dmg

    The result must be the same as this value:

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    If the value is not shown, open the release page: it lists the SHA-256 of every file, and so does SHA256SUMS.txt.

    If it is different, do not use the file. Download it again.

  3. Open the .dmg and drag DistributedCryptography onto the Applications folder shown next to it.

  4. Allow it to run. The app is not signed with an Apple Developer ID, so macOS puts it in quarantine: if you double-click it, macOS blocks it or says it comes from an unidentified developer. Remove the quarantine mark. In Terminal run:

    Terminal window
    sudo xattr -cr /Applications/DistributedCryptography.app

    If you copied the app to another folder, use that folder instead of /Applications.

  5. Start the application. It starts the wallet and opens your browser at http://localhost:5000/wallet.wallets. To stop it, quit the app from the Dock.

The files are built by GitHub from the public source code, and every version stays available on the releases page.

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