> > > A la ZFS, should we be checksumming what we download?  Perhaps
> > > we do and I didn't realize.
> > 
> > We checksum as part of the decompress, but we throw away the output.
> > We've been doing this for quite some time now.
> 
> I didn't know.  What do you mean by "throw away the output"?

We perform the mathematical operations to obtain the checksum, but we
don't compare that the value we computed actually matches the value that
the file name says it should be. :)

-j

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