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Not a new protocol, but a slight modification of the existing one

Not a new protocol, but a slight modification of the existing one

Posted Jul 14, 2008 20:40 UTC (Mon) by khim (subscriber, #9252)
In reply to: How to fix it by dlang
Parent article: Study: Attacks on package managers

Most torrent managers I know about can download just a few files from huge torrent. Sure it works not as good as when you download the whole torrent but when there are thousands of peers it still works great. You only need to pad .torrent with zero-filled files and voila - no need for a new protocol.


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