chewie

@chewie@mammut.gogreenit.net

Likes playing with technology, decentralization, electronic music and rabbits. Likes snow when he can find it.

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Why don't nfo files contain a checksum for the release?

I assume there’s some historical reason for this, but currently, the way scene releases reach most people seems to consist of:...

chewie, 1 year ago

@Yglorba

Good question. I guess people thought naively that .sfv files were enough, but of course that's not true.

Some .nfo files contain md5s for things, but that would be easily changeable.

It would have to be a cryptographic checksum, using something like GPG/PGP with a distributed fingerprint to be any good.

I've seen one or two over the years, but not as many as you'd expect for people that should be worried about security and image.

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