“Only the paranoid survive.” – Qubes OS signature mismatch

Re:“Only the paranoid survive.” – Qubes OS signature mismatch by Gruselbauer on Sunday December 04, 2016 @03:16PM (#13101574)

Redownload. Check again. I'm on satellite internet with the horrible latencies and frequent timeouts associated with that tech, I recently had the netinstall image for Debian fail integrity checking three times in a row, from the http mirrors. Guy from the link said it himself, download via torrent and all is well.

Generally, being on such terrible interwebs I get angry whenever I hear people claim torrents are only for piracy. We all know they're wrong, but my legal torrent use has really never been more intense. Rsync's ability for aggressive retrying is also blessed :)

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Re:“Only the paranoid survive.” – Qubes OS signature mismatch by simcop2387 on Sunday December 04, 2016 @03:39PM (#13101668)

Yea that's one thing I really love about torrents. Because of the giant set of hashes they use, it makes it really great to verify integrity of the download. You've got a hash for each block (128k by default) and for the overall download, along with the complete size of the file.

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Re:“Only the paranoid survive.” – Qubes OS signature mismatch by masklinn on Sunday December 04, 2016 @03:59PM (#13101741)

> each block (128k by default)

Depends on the seed creation software, Tixati defaults to 256k for instance, kind-of: it's the default value of the box, but a new default is recomputed based on the amount of data included in the torrent. If I try to seed my local install of Bastion (920MB) it picks 1MB, Atom Zombie Smasher (25MB) yields 64kB, and Shadowrun Hong Kong (9GB) picks 4MB.

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Re:“Only the paranoid survive.” – Qubes OS signature mismatch by simcop2387 on Tuesday December 06, 2016 @01:41PM (#13117115)

Interesting. It's been a long time since I've created any of my own (a decade? geeze I feel old) so it's apparently a bit different.

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Re:“Only the paranoid survive.” – Qubes OS signature mismatch by snvzz on Sunday December 04, 2016 @04:29PM (#13101874)

Switch to HTTPS.

Debian supports using HTTPS mirrors.

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Re:“Only the paranoid survive.” – Qubes OS signature mismatch by Gruselbauer on Sunday December 04, 2016 @07:15PM (#13102536)

I did use HTTPS mirrors. Doesn't help my problem. Unlike torrents.

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Re:“Only the paranoid survive.” – Qubes OS signature mismatch by snvzz on Saturday December 10, 2016 @10:30PM (#13149446)

How does corruption get past TLS?

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