Re: [opensuse] best file distribution technology for my case?

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The Friday 2007-04-06 at 11:59 -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote:

That's what cryptographic identity certificates are for. One would hope
that if BitTorrent is going to be widely used to distribute critical
resources such as software it would be endowed with the ability to
propagate and verify these signatures.

Or does BitTorrent already incorporate certificate validation?

Tell me, when I download opensuse, using http, for instance, do I get such
cryptographic certificates? I believe not. Not even if download from the
novell site.

However, you can publish the torrent initial link in a secure webserver
(https), which means that you get the download site links and checksums
from a certified source. The ensuing torrent download is thus certified.

To duplicate that feat with http you require all mirror servers to use
https. And FTP? No way.

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Cheers,
Carlos E. R.

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