Re: Announce: amnesia Live system 0.4.2

[intrigeri <intrigeri@xxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

Timo Schoeler wrote (09 Feb 2010 18:45:25 GMT) :
> That is very good to hear; however: is the torrent functional?
> Download takes ages.

It is, but we desperately lack seeds. Anyone, please help seeding
amnesia if you're interested + can afford it. If you want to
participate, please take care of always seeding the newest release:
there's RSS[0] and Atom[1] feeds of the available Torrents to help
being up-to-date.

> Is there any effort in making a redundant and *trusted* download
> mirror infrastructure available?

Not yet. I quite like BitTorrent as it gives you a very efficient
mirroring infrastructure for free, once you've got enough peers who
are willing to seed. Moreover, it may be a bit harder to censor
a given .torrent files than a well known HTTP mirrors pool.

But I suppose you're talking about HTTP here, so... what do you mean
by *trusted*? For such a "trusted" mirroring infrastructure to be
useful, people who download amnesia need to be able to trust the
network as well...

IMHO, it is easier (client side) to:

A) trust neither the mirror nor the network, and rely on OpenPGP
   signatures only (=> need for
    - the signing key to be signed by keys in the strong set
    - end-users documentation explaining how to download using
      BitTorrent, how to check OpenPGP signatures
   )

... than to ...

B) trust the mirror, and do what's necessary to be able to trust the
   network too; by "being able to trust the network", I don't mean "to
   trust every Mozilla-approved SSL CA".

> If so, how can we help?

Adding a todo item to our wiki[2] would be a good starting point, so
that there's a place to discuss and coordinate it.

[0] https://amnesia.boum.org/torrents/rss/index.en.rss
[1] https://amnesia.boum.org/torrents/rss/index.en.atom
[2] https://amnesia.boum.org/todo/

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