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They use multi-hash [0] in magnet links, presumably for exactly this reason. ... but for consistency (like their narrowing of valid bencode), they’ve presumabl
by tekacs 6y ago
They use multi-hash [0] in magnet links, presumably for exactly this reason.
... but for consistency (like their narrowing of valid bencode), they’ve presumably chosen one main hash for now, so that every client and server doesn’t have to handle all of these cases as people provide a million variants of the same torrent.
[0]: https://github.com/multiformats/multihash https://github.com/multiformats/multihash