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From: rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us (Bob Peirce #305)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d,news.admin
Subject: Re: shar corruption on TRN posting
Keywords: shar, corruption, hacking?
Message-ID: <1990Dec12.165932.5424@investor.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 12 Dec 90 16:59:32 GMT
References: <140@mx-1>
Reply-To: rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us (Bob Peirce #305)
Organization: Cookson, Peirce & Co., Pittsburgh, PA
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In article <140@mx-1> ar@mcdd1 (Alastair Rae) writes:
>
>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?

Well, Part09/14 was reposted and, while a complete shar file, it seemed
to have nothing much to do with Parts 1-8,10-14.  Part 08 did not
continue into it and Part 10 did not continue from it.
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Bob Peirce, Pittsburgh, PA				  412-471-5320
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