BitTorrent got bought

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Why wouldn't you use a protocol that is mostly used in locally installed software instead of a streaming video flux in a browser ?

You are aware that work to add sha256 was made ?
Also hash methods are only about file integrity it's not a method that can be certify that it wasn't tampered/replaced with (see gpg signatures for that in the gentoo wiki).

Yes. But nobody uses it.
Wrong. Cryptographically secure hash functions do certify that the data wasn't tampered with.

Any non-shit torrent tracker contributor lists sha256 hashes of files in description.
They only certify it wasn't tampered or damaged in transaction between you and server/peer/someone you got the hash from in the first place, they do not prove the file's authenticity unless they're signed by the author's key which you got from him in person or the author gave you the hashes in person.

Speaking of hash functions, here's what I saved years ago for windows 7 iso:
File: Win7_Pro_SP1_English_x64.iso
Size: 3320903680
CRC-32: ad44db36
MD4: 4c9e5617279b120efa68c26091645a3a
MD5: ed15956fe33c13642a6d2cb2c7aa9749
SHA-1: 0bcfc54019ea175b1ee51f6d2b207a3d14dd2b58
SHA-256: 3dae1a531b90fa72e59b4a86b20216188d398c8c070da4a5c5a44fe08b1b6e55
SHA-512: ab0db0283f61a5bbe44797d74546786bf41685175764a448d2e3bd629f292f1e7d829757b26be346b5044d78c9c1891736d93237cee4b1b6f5996a902c86d15f

Let's hope no cianigger bit-flipping space rays touched my hard drives.

Meanwhile the protocol still uses an insecure hash function.
You didn't say that though.

tampered/replaced = not authentic

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I'm implying none of those.

Shit I don't know who I was replying to. Must have been a stroke of autism.
Anyway, what I was saying is for establishing authenticity, uploaders signing releases will hardly ever be more helpful than a hash (especially a file hash from a legit source).

Fucking block chain people.

While I'm here, buy BAT and download Brave.

spyware.neocities.org/articles/brave.html

are you 12 years old? or did i go back in time to 1996?

Lol
Lol
Who could expect that!

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geoshitties was an entirely different thing user

its still very common tho. i see lots of utorrent users in my peer list every day

Well, if they lapped up ads, IE bars and 'bundled partner software' for a decade; they won't have problem with couple little miners.

Or they use antique version from around 2007.

Someone bought a freeware torrent client normies sometimes use for 140 million?
Well if that guy is making such clever decisions I'm going to sell him one of christ's tears for about the same.

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2011 actually

Welcome to globalism. Between the printing press and the purchase, that money was earned by nobody.

If you use BitTorrent or a new version of uTorrent you should be kicked off the internet.

STOP RIGHT THERE PIRATE

BitTorrent is a file transfer protocol written for distributing large binaries in low-latency situations or greater. µTorrent is a proprietary client for the BitTorrent protocol.

What the fuck is BitTorrent? That reference client or whatever which nobody ever used?
if bittorrent used secure hashes (instead of sha1) they'd only allow you to verify that the files described in the torrent file are the ones you received from your peers, end of story. this means if a "secure" HTTPS website served you a bittorrent file, you'd be sure you got the files the website intended you to have