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Re: Cisco and the tobacco industry
- From: Jeffrey I. Schiller
- Date: Sat Jul 30 22:14:57 2005
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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
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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
jis@mit.edu
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