-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2007-04-06 at 14:07 +0100, G.T.Smith wrote:
If it is peer to peer access is what is required e-Mule/e-Donkey is another option, and there are other options. Personally do not use and do not recommend P2P, security is down to the weakest link and P2P is somewhat like unprotected sex... you never no what you are going to catch. P2P solutions do need careful thought about security.
bittorrent does have security: the initial seed or link inlcudes checksums.
Thanks for any comments!
The thing to remember in the University environment you have a lot of talented individuals, and will regard any shared resource as fair game to so you need to think paranoid. It may be a war zone in the outside internet world but it can be like living in the middle of armageddon within a University.
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