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Hash calculation in torrent clients

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The hash in a torrent client or the hashyou find in a magnet-URI is the SHA1-hash of the raw bencoded info-dictionary-part of a torrent-file. To understand how that works you need to know two things: How a torrent-file is built. How bencodeing is done. Both of these are explained in...