Anders Johansson wrote:
On Friday 06 April 2007 20:35:44 Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Friday 2007-04-06 at 19:55 +0200, Anders Johansson wrote:
bittorrent does have security: the initial seed or link inlcudes
checksums.
Indeed. You can be absolutely sure that the virus you receive is
identical to the virus that was sent
A checksum isn't security, it is fault protection
Should I remind you that SuSE/Novell uses torrent to distribute the iso
images of the distribution? Indeed, the "virus" that SuSE distributes is
the one I have installed in my system, alive and running - it is called
"opensuse linux"!
That doesn't change the fact that bittorrent in itself doesn't have security.
It also doesn't change the fact that a checksum is not a security feature. It
only helps you ensure that what you get is what the other side sent. In the
end, you're still stuck with the question "do I trust the sender". Bittorrent
doesn't help you with that
Which protocol does that, I'd like to know...
In the end, you have to trust to source, right?
Unless it's source code, then you can check out the code for yourself.
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