Show HN: Every single torrent is on this website
7 hours ago
- #DHT
- #Infohash
- #BitTorrent
- BitTorrent is a decentralized peer-to-peer file sharing protocol.
- Each torrent has a unique 40-character hexadecimal infohash.
- The website enumerates all possible infohashes, displaying 32 per page.
- DHT queries are made to find peers for each infohash.
- The chance of finding an active infohash randomly is very small but not zero.
- Some torrents may not advertise in DHT, especially private ones.
- No validation exists for infohashes; clients can announce anything.
- Crawlers and malicious clients can spam the network with fake announcements.
- Some sequential infohashes share the same peer, raising questions.
- Legitimate peers might not support required metadata exchange extensions.
- The author also created the Library of Babel, containing every possible book.