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by grun 1751 days ago
> There's no mention on the FAQ page how it prevents from a fake user sending malicious scripts across the network as well.

All content is fragmented, encrypted, and hashed before it's distributed across the network. If a peer ever receives a file piece from a peer and that piece's hash doesn't match the expected hash, it's dropped along with the connection to that peer.

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> All content is fragmented, encrypted, and hashed before it's distributed across the network. If a peer ever receives a file piece from a peer and that piece's hash doesn't match the expected hash, it's dropped along with the connection to that peer.

So, depending on the hashing algorithm, an adversary could use a hash collision to circumvent this, right?