md5 sum in Torrent info hash must be hex-encoded, not binary

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Issue migrated (2015-06-05) from old issue tracker http://mirrorbrain.org/issues/issue77

Title    md5 sum in Torrent info hash must be hex-encoded, not binary
 Priority   bug                    Status          resolved
Superseder                       Nosy List         poeml
Assigned To poeml                 Keywords         torrents

msg282 (view) Author: poeml Date: 2010-09-24.17:18:05

Apparently, the md5 sum in Torrent info hashes must be hex-encoded, not binary.

http://wiki.depthstrike.com/index.php/P2P:Protocol:Specifications:Optional_Hashes
claims this.

It means that sha1 comes in binary form and md5sum in hex-encoding, but well...

msg284 (view) Author: poeml Date: 2010-09-25.01:54:31

Fixed in trunk r8156.
http://svn.mirrorbrain.org/viewvc/mirrorbrain?view=revision&revision=8156

msg292 (view) Author: poeml Date: 2010-09-25.03:01:47

mb makehashes needed the same change, so that the info dict's hash (the bt info
hash) will match.
http://svn.mirrorbrain.org/viewvc/mirrorbrain?view=revision&revision=8161

History
         Date         User  Action             Args
2010-09-25 03:01:53 poeml set    status: chatting -> resolved
2010-09-25 03:01:48 poeml set    status: resolved -> chatting
                                   messages: + msg292
2010-09-25 01:54:32 poeml set    status: unread -> resolved
                                   messages: + msg284
2010-09-24 17:18:06 poeml create

(end of migrated issue)