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In traditional torrents, the files are concatenated and only then divided into chunks. So if I take a existing torrent and add a single 16-byte file to the begi
by theamk 8y ago
In traditional torrents, the files are concatenated and only then divided into chunks. So if I take a existing torrent and add a single 16-byte file to the beginning, there is a good chance it will have no common hashes between new and old one.
Update: There is apparently "bittorrent V2" protocol [1][2], which allows file sharing. It is still not implemented in major clients, like libtorrent[3]
[1] http://bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0052.html http://bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0052.html
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14951728 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14951728
[3] https://github.com/arvidn/libtorrent/issues/2197 https://github.com/arvidn/libtorrent/issues/2197