Understanding the Bittorrent Protocol

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Night Walker picture Night Walker · Dec 24, 2009 · Viewed 8.6k times · Source

I am looking for some books, tutorial sites .

I want to understand how Bittorrent protocol works and later to implement my own tracker .

I don't have a big knowledge in network protocols so I am looking for a newbie stuff .

Have seen following posts but they didn't helped me with my issue :

A BitTorrent client completely written in C#?

Implementing Bittorrent Protocol

Looking for some good books/resources on understanding Bittorrent?

Thanks for help .

Answer

skaffman picture skaffman · Dec 24, 2009

The BitTorrent specification is quite easy reading (relatively speaking):

http://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0003.html

The wikipedia page is also surprisingly comprehensive:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent_%28protocol%29

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