Re:BitTorrent v2 (2020)
by twic on Monday January 10, 2022 @06:03PM
(#29884262)
The magnet URL format is at least using multihash:
> Like the urn:btih: prefix for v1 SHA-1 info-hashes, there’s a new prefix, urn:btmh: for full v2 SHA0256 info hashes. For example, a magnet link thus looks like this:
> Like the urn:btih: prefix for v1 SHA-1 info-hashes, there’s a new prefix, urn:btmh: for full v2 SHA0256 info hashes. For example, a magnet link thus looks like this:
> magnet:?xt=urn:btmh:<tagged-info-hash>&dn=<name>&tr=<tracker-url>
> The info-hash with the btmh prefix is the v2 info-hash in multi-hash format encoded in hexadecimal.