I first encountered bsdiff when working on reverse engineering Blizzard MPQs (their proprietary packaging format, long abandoned now in favour of other stuff).

I first encountered bsdiff when working on reverse engineering Blizzard MPQs (their proprietary packaging format, long abandoned now in favour of other stuff). They started using it for mpq patches some time in … 2007 I want to say? I was 16, had just started to code. 10-ish years later, I'm doing other stuff but still working with Blizzard-related tooling sometimes. I was talking to a Battle.net engineer about their latest-and-greatest game update protocols. He tells me they're thinking of adopting this great thing called bsdiff for the next version. I giggled a bit. Anyway, hi! I implemented a version of your algorithm when I still barely knew wtf I was doing. https://github.com/jleclanche/python-ptch https://github.com/jleclanche/python-ptch