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by Xylakant 4226 days ago
Actually, there's no requirement that .deb packages are signed. The system still provides a strong guarantee, because the releases file contains a list of checksums for each package, so it's impossible to tamper with the package, even though it's unsigned. However, if you manually download the package, all bets are off.

RPMs are usually signed directly.