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[Simon Wells <swel024@xxxxxxxxx>]

i still wouldn't call it security, validity yes, security no..... nor
is md5 security

On 24 February 2017 at 20:06, Marco Ciampa <ciampix@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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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