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Most torrent clients that people use (though not all) are actually wrappers around libtorrent, which is very well tested and has even been audited.
by treyd 1y ago
Most torrent clients that people use (though not all) are actually wrappers around libtorrent, which is very well tested and has even been audited.
- dafugg 1y agoLibtorrent even has fuzzers specifically for communications with trackers and DHT peers. Obviously this isn’t perfect but it gives me much more confidence than other implementations do.
- delusional 1y agoIt's worth noting that there are at least 3 variants calling themselves "libtorrent" and to my knowledge they don't have a lot in common implementation wise.
- boramalper 1y ago1. libtorrent-rasterbar — https://packages.debian.org/sid/libtorrent-rasterbar-dev https://packages.debian.org/sid/libtorrent-rasterbar-dev 2. libtorrent-rakshasa (rTorrent) — https://packages.debian.org/sid/libtorrent-dev https://packages.debian.org/sid/libtorrent-dev What’s the third one?