Re: XML Torrents?

--On Friday, March 11, 2005 12:26 PM -0800 Elliott Mitchell <[email protected]> 
wrote:

> [info_hash's] provide proof that the data blocks have been transfered
> successfully. This includes showing that the peer isn't sending you
> garbage hoping to fool you into given credit for pieces you haven't
> transferred.

Looking at the Tracker GET request in the protocol spec at 
<http://www.bittorrent.com/protocol.html>, I don't see how the info_hash 
provides any integrity. I understand how the fragment hashes do that, but 
those are computed from the payload file, not the metadata file, and aren't 
sensitive to the representation of the metadata.

I also don't see any mechanism for preventing spoofing of one's statistics 
to the tracker.


 
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