And it succeeds in that. It's a zip, and you can open it in something like WinRAR with no issues. The special protection is only going to be relevant to KTM and any other potential downgrade if they adopted the header format. I actually would recommend that, as it ought to do a good job of that.See, thats what i meant. i failed at typing it..sort of..i guess, but its to prevent bricks and have checksumming to be sure it's the correct file.