Preferable way is to download tarball with the signature from official website and, for example, run tests with benchmarks: % wget http://www.cypherpunks.ru/gogost/gogost-1.1.tar.xz % wget http://www.cypherpunks.ru/gogost/gogost-1.1.tar.xz.sig % gpg --verify gogost-1.1.tar.xz.sig gogost-1.1.tar.xz % xz -d < gogost-1.1.tar.gz | tar xf - % make -C gogost-1.1 bench You have to verify downloaded tarballs integrity and authenticity to be sure that you retrieved trusted and untampered software. GNU Privacy Guard is used for that purpose. For the very first time it it necessary to get signing public key and import it. It is provided below, but you should check alternative resources. pub rsa2048/0x82343436696FC85A 2016-09-13 [SC] CEBD 1282 2C46 9C02 A81A 0467 8234 3436 696F C85A uid GoGOST releases Look in PUBKEY.asc file. % gpg --keyserver hkp://keys.gnupg.net/ --recv-keys 0x82343436696FC85A % gpg --auto-key-locate dane --locate-keys gogost at cypherpunks dot ru % gpg --auto-key-locate wkd --locate-keys gogost at cypherpunks dot ru % gpg --auto-key-locate pka --locate-keys gogost at cypherpunks dot ru