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/ -- intrigeri <intrig...@boum.org> | GnuPG key @ https://gaffer.ptitcanardnoir.org/intrigeri/intrigeri.asc | OTR fingerprint @ https://gaffer.ptitcanardnoir.org/intrigeri/otr-fingerprint.asc | Every now and then I get a little bit restless | and I dream of something wild. *********************************************************************** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to majord...@torproject.org with unsubscribe or-talk in the body. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/