You want true security, DONT USE IT! *hides behind the fridge*
On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 16:58:06 -0500, Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hanspeter Roth wrote:
On Jan 25 at 14:48, Chuck Swiger spoke:
You need to have an external source of information which specifies a
checksum or MD5
On Jan 25 at 16:58, Chuck Swiger spoke:
Hanspeter Roth wrote:
On Jan 25 at 14:48, Chuck Swiger spoke:
You need to have an external source of information which specifies a
checksum or MD5 hash to confirm that the file has not been tampered with.
That to say I should download
Hello,
how secure is Bittorrent? How can one know how trustworthy the stuff
downloaded from other Bittorrent fellows is?
-Hanspeter
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On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 08:22:53PM +0100, Hanspeter Roth wrote:
Hello,
how secure is Bittorrent?
Do you mean the Bittorrent *protocol*, or a specific
*implementation* thereof? And what do you mean with 'secure'?
How can one know how trustworthy the stuff
downloaded from other Bittorrent
On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 20:22:53 +0100
Hanspeter Roth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
how secure is Bittorrent? How can one know how trustworthy the stuff
downloaded from other Bittorrent fellows is?
This a bit OT for a FreeBSD list, but I'll answer it anyway. A torrent
file contains info about the
Hanspeter Roth wrote:
how secure is Bittorrent?
It's not secure.
How can one know how trustworthy the stuff
downloaded from other Bittorrent fellows is?
You need to have an external source of information which specifies a checksum
or MD5 hash to confirm that the file has not been tampered with.
On Jan 25 at 14:48, Chuck Swiger spoke:
Hanspeter Roth wrote:
how secure is Bittorrent?
It's not secure.
How can one know how trustworthy the stuff
downloaded from other Bittorrent fellows is?
You need to have an external source of information which specifies a
checksum or MD5
Hanspeter Roth wrote:
On Jan 25 at 14:48, Chuck Swiger spoke:
You need to have an external source of information which specifies a
checksum or MD5 hash to confirm that the file has not been tampered with.
That to say I should download CHECKSUM.MD5 from one of the public
FTP-servers by hand
