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Article #1185shar corruption on TRN posting
From: Alastair Rae
Date: Wed, 05 Dec 1990 16:01
Date: Wed, 05 Dec 1990 16:01
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I've just downloaded TRN from comp.sources.unix. 13 of its 14 parts
were coherent shell-archives but part 9's tail-end was wrong. This
was different to all the other parts which output a sequence number to
a temp file so as to keep the shars in order.
OK, I can get round that but it got me thinking. I wondered what
happened to corrupt the shar? Maybe the posting was corrupt in the
first place but my main worry is this:
How can I be certain that a shar archive is what it claims to be?
How do I know that it hasn't been interfered with along the net?
When some tempting piece of software lands up at my end of the net,
how do I know that it's safe to unpack, never mind compile & run?
Am I just being paranoid?
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!rex!rouge!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!mintaka!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!mcsun!ukc!mcdd1!ar From: ar@mcdd1 (Alastair Rae) Newsgroups: comp.sources.d,news.admin Subject: shar corruption on TRN posting Keywords: shar, corruption, hacking? Message-ID: <140@mx-1> Date: 5 Dec 90 16:01:44 GMT Organization: McDonnell Douglas,Hemel Hempstead,UK Lines: 23