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Just a small way to help people get their FOSS. What are some other projects that have torrents that would be good to seed?

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Verifiying the checksum of an iso takes 30 seconds... You don't need to trust anyone

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

I don't think that is even necessary. If you download the .torrent file from a trusted source it will already contain a secure hash of the final file. Also every piece you receive also comes with a hash that can also be verified through the .torrent file. If you don't trust the source enough to provide a valid .torrent, I don't see how downloading the image directly from them makes any difference. Read more: Official BitTorrent BEP BitTorrent V2 and SHA-256

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Well you do need to trust the checksum provided. That is the one you are checking against. Better would be a signature from a key you trust.

In the end a modern torrent is just a hash.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Checksum doesn't verify authenticity. You need to verify the signature

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Been on Linux 6 years, never done it. Extra steps

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Length of time never means quality of decisions. Always best to validate. So easy to package up malware and farm folks bank accounts.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Hence my threat model hasn't included torrents.