md5sum doesn't match with BitTorrent

[Hoyt Duff]

On Thursday 06 November 2003 02:05 pm, Jeremy Portzer wrote:
> > Checking MD5's of a completed torrent d/l is redundant, because
> > BitTorrent checks MD5 on each chunk it gets as it completes it.
>
> To be pedantic, BitTorrent actually uses the SHA1 hash algorithm, not
> MD5, though the effect is the same.

Then how come I have gotten corrupted bt downloads?

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