Re: md5sum doesn't match with BitTorrent
"Paul W. Frields" <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.redhat.rhl.beta,gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.testers |
|---|---|
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 09:05, Jeremy Portzer wrote: > On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 21:14, Paul W. Frields wrote: > > Checking MD5's of a completed torrent d/l is redundant, because > > BitTorrent checks MD5 on each chunk it gets as it completes it. > > To be pedantic, BitTorrent actually uses the SHA1 hash algorithm, not > MD5, though the effect is the same. Not pedantic at all, thanks for correcting me. I got my algos confused. -- Paul W. Frields, RHCE -- fedora-test-list mailing list [email protected] http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list