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by simcop2387 3480 days ago
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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masklinn 3480 days ago
> 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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simcop2387 3478 days ago
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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