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# Session Desktop
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[Download at getsession.org](https://getsession.org/download)
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## Summary
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Session integrates directly with [Oxen Service Nodes](https://docs.oxen.io/about-the-oxen-blockchain/oxen-service-nodes), which are a set of distributed, decentralized and Sybil resistant nodes. Service Nodes act as servers which store messages offline, and a set of nodes which allow for onion routing functionality obfuscating users IP Addresses. For a full understanding of how Session works, read the [Session Whitepaper](https://getsession.org/whitepaper).
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## Want to Contribute? Found a Bug or Have a feature request?
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Please search for any [existing issues](https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/issues) that describe your bug in order to avoid duplicate submissions. <br><br>Submissions can be made by making a pull request to our development branch.If you don't know where to start contributing please read [Contributing.md](CONTRIBUTING.md) and refer to issues tagged with the [Good-first-issue](https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3A%22good+first+issue%22) tag.
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## Supported platforms
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Session requires Windows 10 or later, macOS Catalina (10.15) or later, or a linux distribution with glibc 2.28 or later like Debian 10 or Ubuntu 20.04.
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## Build instruction
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Build instructions can be found in [Contributing.md](CONTRIBUTING.md).
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## Verifying signatures
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Get Kee's key and import it:
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```
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wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/oxen-io/oxen-core/dev/utils/gpg_keys/KeeJef.asc
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gpg --import KeeJef.asc
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```
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Get the signed hash for this release, the SESSION_VERSION needs to be updated for the release you want to verify
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```
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export SESSION_VERSION=1.6.1
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wget https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/releases/download/v$SESSION_VERSION/signatures.asc
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```
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Verify the signature of the hashes of the files
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```
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gpg --verify signatures.asc 2>&1 |grep "Good signature from"
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```
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The command above should print "`Good signature from "Kee Jefferys...`"
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If it does, the hashes are valid but we still have to make the sure the signed hashes matches the downloaded files.
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Make sure the two commands below returns the same hash.
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If they do, files are valid
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```
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sha256sum session-desktop-linux-amd64-$SESSION_VERSION.deb
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grep .deb signatures.asc
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```
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## Debian repository
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Please visit https://deb.oxen.io/<br/>
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## License
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Copyright 2011 Whisper Systems<br/>
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Copyright 2013-2017 Open Whisper Systems<br/>
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Copyright 2019-2023 The Oxen Project<br/>
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Licensed under the GPLv3: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html<br/>
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