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Could a client that has all the files just advertise a v2 version via DHT, even though the actual torrent was only a v1?
by niklasrde 6y ago
Could a client that has all the files just advertise a v2 version via DHT, even though the actual torrent was only a v1?
- the8472 6y agoThe issue is that there would be no way for clients which are currently downloading the v1 torrent to verify that the v2 matches. You could only do that after you have the data, at which point you could compute it yourself.