* Re: [gentoo-dev] (crazy?) proposal to reduce load and disk on mirrors
@ 2003-07-24 5:54 99% ` Raimundo Bilbao
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From: Raimundo Bilbao @ 2003-07-24 5:54 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-dev
On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 09:35:04 +0200
Håvard Wall <haavardw@ifi.uio.no> wrote:
[...]
> How about implementing a file-sharing propram taylored for gentoo? Users
> could voluntarily share their /usr/portage/distfiles, or whatever would
> benefit mirrors. This would potentially let us keep huge (gaming-)files
> on their (faulty) hosts. When the original host is down, there would
> probably already be some users online which have a copy and is sharing it.
>
[...]
Sound great, a P2P gentoo (?), but how do you protect against trojans, malware and stuffs like that?, is MD5 (AFAIK, currently the only checksum used) good enough?.
cheers
mundo
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