From: "William K. Josephson" <jkw@eecs.harvard.edu>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] invalid md5/sha1 on plan9port.tgz
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 22:01:48 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050303030148.GB28169@mero.morphisms.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ee9e417a050302185271d9b8a0@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 09:52:10PM -0500, Russ Cox wrote:
> > It isn't as if the hash really helps since
> > the hash and the distribution are sitting on the same
> > filesystem in the first place.
>
> The hash is to allow people to check for network errors during
> download, not swtch.com file system corruption.
I figured it was for those of us with tin-foil hats :-/
prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-03 3:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-02 21:27 Matthias Wenzel
2005-03-02 22:23 ` William Josephson
2005-03-02 22:53 ` Matthias Wenzel
2005-03-03 2:00 ` William Josephson
2005-03-03 2:52 ` Russ Cox
2005-03-03 3:01 ` William K. Josephson [this message]
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