On Nov 3, 2010, at 4:03 PM, Gary wrote: > On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 2:15 PM, Jesus Cea wrote: > >> You don't neet a MD5 check. The original "torrent" file comes from >> OpenIndiana, and it is "safe". You are a seed, like any other BT client. > > The reason you don't need one is because torrent clients perform their > own checksum with a Mainline distributed hash table; > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent_(protocol)#Creating_and_publishing_torrents > > -Gary
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. Even if it offers no _technical_ advantage, in that regard it might still be useful to separately post an MD5. _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
