Re:BitTorrent v2
by tekacs on Monday September 07, 2020 @05:43PM
(#24403180)
They use multi-hash [0] in magnet links, presumably for exactly this reason.
... but for consistency (like their narrowing of valid bencode), they’ve presumably chosen one main hash for now, so that every client and server doesn’t have to handle all of these cases as people provide a million variants of the same torrent.
... but for consistency (like their narrowing of valid bencode), they’ve presumably chosen one main hash for now, so that every client and server doesn’t have to handle all of these cases as people provide a million variants of the same torrent.
[0]: https://github.com/multiformats/multihash