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[Marco Ciampa <ciampix@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 08:01:38AM +0100, Nick Østergaard wrote:
> 2017-02-24 7:59 GMT+01:00 Marco Ciampa <ciampix@xxxxxxxxx>:
> > On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 11:50:59AM -0500, Mark Roszko wrote:
> >
> >> > I have no issue with that but there is no way for KiCad to control
> >> > what is uploaded to a torrent so I really don't want the project to be
> >> > responsible for it
> >>
> >> The torrent could be autogenerated by the download server when the
> >> files are transferred over, the download server would act as the
> >> initial seed server. The torrent once created could be shared on the
> >> website and then thats it. The contents of the torrent cannot change
> >> without it being a completely different hash and thus invalid for the
> >> torrent.
> >
> > Agree.
> > Actually using torrent is _more_ secure than downloading via ftp or http.
> >
> 
> Given that you got the correct torrent or magnet link in the first place.

Yes, this is why official torrents seeds from an https site is important...

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Marco Ciampa

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