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Re:BitTorrent v2 by abluecloud on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @05:18AM (#24406641)
do two identical compressions produce the same output? if so, wouldn't the same thing happened just against the compressed files?

It's not uncommon to see multiple .torrent files with the same content FYI.

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Re:BitTorrent v2 by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @10:01AM (#24408422)
Normally no, compression formats like zip are not guaranteed to produce the same output for the same input. That's why things like torrentzip and torrent7zip were created, to ensure that the same input did create the same output.
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