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>This will mess up torrent sharing websites in a hurry. I doubt it. Should this ever become a problem, it would be trivial to change the hashing algorithm. Not
by yAnonymous 10y ago
>This will mess up torrent sharing websites in a hurry.
I doubt it. Should this ever become a problem, it would be trivial to change the hashing algorithm. Not worth the effort.
- inetknght 10y agoHow do you propose to ensure backwards compatibility with the millions of torrents already produced?
- VMG 10y agoNew clients could support multiple hash algs, so old torrents would not be a problem. New torrents could provide hashes for multiple algs, depending on the extensiblity of torrent format. Otherwise the torrent sites could provide two URLs or torrent files.
- yAnonymous 10y agoDepends on the implementation, which I'm not familiar with, but there are definitely ways to handle that.