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Re: Please, use --check=crc32 or switch to a safe format


From: Michael Stone
Subject: Re: Please, use --check=crc32 or switch to a safe format
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2017 08:57:40 -0400
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12)

On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 01:13:22PM +0200, Antonio Diaz Diaz wrote:
(i.e. checking the data before decompressing it) is not enough because the probability of undetected decompression errors is not negligible.

And yet, the reports of crc errors being triggered in the real world seem pretty sparse, no? This seems like one of those issues where there's a set of people who get really, really passionate over it, but the real impact seems pretty negligable.


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