Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 14:48:17 -0500 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bittorrent secure? Message-ID: <41F6A281.8030601@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <20050125192253.GA3088@gicco.homeip.net> References: <20050125192253.GA3088@gicco.homeip.net>
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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. If you trust the Torrent tracker file, then BitTorrent has this part built-in. Otherwise, you would use something like the distinfo files in /usr/ports to help confirm the validity of files. On the other hand, Torrent doesn't do any worse than FTP or HTTP. -- -Chuck
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