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		tinus_hn on July 14, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent The torrent file is downloaded over a secure connection that you can’t monitor. Can you please tell me which messages in the BitTorrent protocol contain the filenames?

zyx321 on July 14, 2020 [–]

Can't you just look up the hash on DHT? Since hash is the only mandatory field in a Magnet URI.

tinus_hn on July 15, 2020 | [–]

Of course but connecting to a peer to peer network and looking it up doesn’t sound ‘trivial’ to me.

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