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Kc | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 How do you know the downloaded file will decrypt to something useful and not to random garbage?
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calle 👁️⚡👁️ | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 Someone needs to have verified the decrypted file hash before. Could be the merkle root of a torrent file for example, or some other well-known data (like the Blockchain).