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A comment on Transmission BitTorrent Client OSX/Keydnap Malware Incident Q+A. Parent comment

Re:Transmission BitTorrent Client OSX/Keydnap Malware Incide... by voltagex_ on Thursday September 01, 2016 @05:42AM (#12403976)
I like Deluge, but I really wish its default API (protocol) wasn't so difficult to use. It's bencoded Python objects as far as I can tell. If you've never heard of bencoding, that's because it's only used by Deluge.
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Re:Transmission BitTorrent Client OSX/Keydnap Malware Incide... by mappu on Thursday September 01, 2016 @06:11AM (#12404085)
The .torrent file format itself uses bencoded fields.
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Re:Transmission BitTorrent Client OSX/Keydnap Malware Incide... by voltagex_ on Thursday September 01, 2016 @06:48AM (#12404262)
Ah crap. I meant rencoded. https://github.com/aresch/rencode
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