[OpenIndiana-discuss] Spare bandwidth for mirroring

[Jesus Cea]

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On 03/11/10 23:19, Richard L. Hamilton wrote:
> Sure, but it's a simple confidence builder, at least for a torrent
> consisting of a single file; it lets people satisfy themselves that
> they're getting the "real" thing, and not a possibly modified
> redistribution hosted by a deceptively similarly named tracker or the like.

Anybody that knows how BitTorrent works would not need this
"confidence", but I agree that MD5 *AND* SHA1 checksums should be
published. They would be needed by the people who download the ISO
images from the central server, and would be used too by the people
using BitTorrent, even if technically they are not needed.

MD5 alone is not safe enough :) :
<https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Md5#Security>.

I can't wait for SHA-3:
<https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Sha3>.

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