Bella spiegazione intorno al problema dei download della beta di Vista con interessanti argomentazioni anche in tema di Amazon S3.
So, if Microsoft wanted to join the modern peer-to-peer era, they could allow BitTorrent downloads and simply post MD5 hashes of the data. To make it even easier, they could distribute (via direct download) a small program that would verify the integrity of the data obtained via the torrent. The integrity checker could perform multiple checks on the data to give all parties involved a lot of confidence that the bits came from Microsoft.


