[tex-live] hosting inst image
Philip & Le Khanh
Philip-and-LeKhanh at Royal-Tunbridge-Wells.Org
Fri Mar 2 22:45:57 CET 2007
Don't really understand MD5s, but is there any benefit
in listing what BT terms the "Infohash", which I suspect
is BTs way of determining (a) authenticity, and
(b) completeness ? If so, for .inst, the value is
081c74403c5fe795593af8026f44a7c03c174e04
E&OE (I had to type it in by hand ...).
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Florent Rougon wrote:
> I think it would be highly desirable to display at least the MD5
> checksum of the image, just after the list where you give the bittorent
> link. This is primarily for security reasons, but may also avoid people
> wasting their time with a corrupted file. Besides, I don't think
> everyone will have the idea and patience to get the md5sum from the FTP
> mirrors that are listed there, and even then, I'd say the most
> trustworthy source for the md5sum is a priori tug.org, not these mirrors
> (note that I am not saying that the admins of these mirrors aren't
> trustworthy, just that tug.org is the primary source, so...).
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