very large data files

Thiago Macieira thiago at kde.org
Fri Jul 11 23:50:01 BST 2008


Ingo Klöcker wrote:
>After fetching the file via torrent its checksum would be checked
>against the checksum provided by GHNS to prevent forged data.

As long as you get the .torrent file from a trustworthy source, you don't 
need to checksum the result.

The .torrent file is the checksum.
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