Re:Resurrecting a dead torrent tracker and finding 3M peers
by treyd on Tuesday June 17, 2025 @05:55PM
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Most torrent clients that people use (though not all) are actually wrappers around libtorrent, which is very well tested and has even been audited.
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Re:Resurrecting a dead torrent tracker and finding 3M peers
by dafugg on Wednesday June 18, 2025 @12:33AM
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Libtorrent even has fuzzers specifically for communications with trackers and DHT peers. Obviously this isn’t perfect but it gives me much more confidence than other implementations do.
Re:Resurrecting a dead torrent tracker and finding 3M peers
by delusional on Wednesday June 18, 2025 @01:23AM
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It's worth noting that there are at least 3 variants calling themselves "libtorrent" and to my knowledge they don't have a lot in common implementation wise.
Re:Resurrecting a dead torrent tracker and finding 3M peers
by boramalper on Saturday June 21, 2025 @04:45AM
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1. libtorrent-rasterbar — https://packages.debian.org/sid/libtorrent-rasterbar-dev
2. libtorrent-rakshasa (rTorrent) — https://packages.debian.org/sid/libtorrent-dev
What’s the third one?