bittorrent

How to perform a BitTorrent handshake given an infohash and it's peers?

How to perform a BitTorrent handshake given an infohash and it's peers? Question: I’d like to continue my last related thread in my attempt to understand and build a BitTorrent search engine. While listening the network for "get_peers" messages, I manage to grab infohashes. I proceed to ask the corresponding DHT node for it’s peers. …

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How to write a simple Bittorrent application?

How to write a simple Bittorrent application? Question: How to write a simple bittorrent application. Something like a “hello world” using a bittorrent library, I mean a simplest of the application to understand the working of bittorrent. I would prefer a python or a C/C++ implementation, but it can be any language. Platform is not …

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Extract the SHA1 hash from a torrent file

Extract the SHA1 hash from a torrent file Question: I’ve had a look around for the answer to this, but I only seem to be able to find software that does it for you. Does anybody know how to go about doing this in python? Asked By: user271528 || Source Answers: I wrote a piece …

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