Thanx fadi... i searched around a lot, and after asking for help from a lug i got the answer, which is bittorent uses SHA1.. not MD5Sum... although i was going with MD5Sum as well...

On 10/29/05, Fadi Kahhaleh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Faisal,

 

I believe you should be looking at something called md5sum.

Here you go, I believe this is helpful:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Md5 (has algorithm and sample code)

http://userpages.umbc.edu/~mabzug1/cs/md5/md5.html (i think it has code implementations in different langs)

(you can also get the RFC file from the above sites)

 

Now I am not sure of bittorent has its own checksum algorithm, but I'd stick with md5

As its pretty much a good standard J (IMHO).

 

Guys feel free to punch in, as I am sure there are more knowledgeable people out there
in this topic.

 

Catch ya soon bro,

 

Fadi .K

 


From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Al-Faisal El-Dajani
Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 11:39 AM
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Subject: [JoLUG-General] Bittorent Hashsum

 

Hello everybody,
Does anybody know how the bittorent hashsum is implemented? or where i can find information about it?
I've been asked to write a procedure that does the exact same thing, and i have no idea what's that all about...
thanx for your help

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