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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Ivan Groenewald wrote: > .. > and Cisco can distribute them via BitTorrent :-) > That's equivalent to saying the internet is safe enough to do your > corporate banking via plain text email. > my 2 pence, Actually BitTorrent is a very good technology for this sort of thing. It scales well for a large file to be downloaded by a large number of people. Another important feature is that the .torrent file contains a cryptographic hash of the file to be obtained (as well as the individual pieces of the file). So as long as you can securely obtain the .torrent file (say from an SSL protected Cisco operated website) you can relay on the final delivered file to also be correct. -Jeff - -- ============================================================================= Jeffrey I. Schiller MIT Network Manager Information Services and Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology 77 Massachusetts Avenue Room W92-190 Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 617.253.0161 - Voice [email protected] ============================================================================ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFC7DOd8CBzV/QUlSsRAuApAJ9VPJAtUFx0zKWlOUgbcvWW/z1wJwCfT37x E7skOVQeFrqjLB+N/xjYva0= =/4vN -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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