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Depending on your threat model, not very important. What are the chances that 1) someone will have hacked Mullvad’s server and installed a compromised version of the browser, and 2) you happen to download the compromised version before the hack is discovered and mitigated? ~~Also, the signature and the package appear to be on the same server, so what’s necessarily going to stop the hacker from updating the signature to match their hacked package?~~ [Edit: It’s a GPG signature, not a simple hash signature, so I guess that’s so not trivial after all.]
Right. The risk is low, but nonzero.
You'll want to make sure that the key you're validating is provided through another trusted channel, so that an attacker can't provide a bad download and have you check it against their bad key too.
That's kind of what I figured, although after following Mullvad Browser's instructions for verification, I did get two different RSA keys, if that means anything . . .