[Dev] Using pacman2pacman by default

Josh Branning lovell.joshyyy at gmail.com
Sat Mar 12 18:48:13 GMT 2016


On 12/03/16 18:22, Luke wrote:
> On 03/12/2016 12:49 PM, Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli wrote:
>>
>> What are the consequences of that?
>> - Would people be able to download all their updates this way? Would
>>    there be some torrent mirrors (available 24/24) to make sure of that?
>
> We could use webseeds for this, but due to limitations of bittorrent it
> is HTTP only. That is rather insecure overall...

HTTP is not so much of a problem with security with torrents, so long as 
the torrent files or magnet links are distributed securely, as it works 
by cryptographic hashes.

Anonymity is still be an issue though.



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