Re:The BitTorrent Protocol Specification v2
by jacksonsabey on Monday August 07, 2017 @11:19PM
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would 2 different torrents that contain a file with the same exact physical hash share the same torrent file hash?
if torrent A and B both contain the exact same file, but torrent A only has the first half available, and torrent B has the second half available, could I combine both torrents to download that file? this could help fix old dead torrents or at least make the file searchable elsewhere by it's sha256 for example
Re:The BitTorrent Protocol Specification v2
by infogulch on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @04:18PM
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Not necessarily. If you have a smart client it should be able to combine them at the file-level since individual files are hashed as a whole now, regardless of the block size within it.
if torrent A and B both contain the exact same file, but torrent A only has the first half available, and torrent B has the second half available, could I combine both torrents to download that file? this could help fix old dead torrents or at least make the file searchable elsewhere by it's sha256 for example