verify

Verify an MPQ archive signature.

Verify an MPQ archive

Check the digital signature of an MPQ archive by verifying the signature in the archive with a collection of known Blizzard public keys (bundled in StormLib library). The tool will print if verification succeeds or fails, as well as return 0 for success and any other value for failure.

$ mpqcli verify wow-patch.mpq
[*] Verify success

If verification passes, a zero (0) exit status will be returned. This can be helpful to verify a large number of MPQ archives without the need to review the status message that is printed out.

$ echo $?
0

Verify an MPQ archive and print the digital signature

Check the digital signature of an MPQ archive, and also write the signature’s raw bytes to stdout, using the -x or --print argument. The verification result still goes to stderr, so the bytes can be redirected to a file on their own:

$ mpqcli verify --print wow-patch.mpq > signature

To view the signature as hexadecimal, pipe it through a tool such as xxd:

$ mpqcli verify --print wow-patch.mpq | xxd