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Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 13:36:49 +0200
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Subject: Re: Shutdown of the "download.services.openoffice.org" host and its
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From: Christian Lohmaier <cloph@openoffice.org>
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Hi Dennis, *,

On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 2:04 AM, Dennis E. Hamilton
<dennis.hamilton@acm.org> wrote:
> I read somewhere, and I don't know where, that ASF did not want torrents =
to be used.
>=A0I'm guessing that the issue is related to ensuring the integrity and au=
thenticity of
> packaged releases.

That doesn't make sense - integrity is assured by bittorrent by
providing sha1sums for each  chunk. And authenticity can be assured
just like it is with regular releases - just include a corresponding
signature file within the torrent.

> I may have dreamed it or I am mixing this up with something else.

If those were the only reasons, then they were made-up arguments.

But bittorrent only makes sense for larger files anyway.

ciao
Christian