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Wouldn't the peer uploading garbage data be caught immediately because the garbage wouldn't hash to the correct value? I imagine most clients would stop talking

• ratorx 2y ago
  Torrents are split into pieces, each of which has a hash that allows it to be validated independently. However, these pieces can themselves be large, so it is often recommended to split them into smaller chunks that are sent one at a time. You cannot validate a chunk independently, and if you assemble a piece from chunks from multiple origins, you can’t immediately tell which origin is bad. You need to explicitly handle this case, like the sibling comment mentioned by isolating peers who may have sent bad data and forcing validation.