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Re: [perpass] perens-perpass-appropriate-response-01

Bruce Perens <bruce@perens.com> Fri, 27 December 2013 07:48 UTC

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eTag is a partial step in this direction. But not very far. There's no defined way for the client to independently verify it, and it isn't necessarily identical across different lossless compressions of the object. A tighter specification could add end-to-end authentication of an object while retaining the existing functions of eTag.

The most oft-used convention is a separate checksum file. Less often, the checksum file is signed.
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