Recently I decided to look further into the BitTorrent Protocol, as I have been fascinated by distributed systems (like peer-to-peer) and the communication protocols involved.
As I learnt more about how the protocol works, I thought it would be a good exercise to create a parser for the Bencode format — the format used to store and transfer metadata about a torrent file. My main goal was to create a simple program that is capable of constructing an internal representation of the Bencoded string and can output it in a nicer format (e.g. JSON).
Bencode is a relatively straight-forward encoding which has four different types:
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| Author | Jed Simson |
| Date | July 27, 2016 |
| Filename | 2016-07-27-Bencode Parsing in Swift.md |
| Filesize | 9271 |
| Last Modified | Thu, 04 Jun 2020 |
| Post ID | blog_post_3 |
| Summary | Thoughts about using Swift to create a Bencode parser. |
| Tags | bencode, swift, parsing, personal, code |
| Title | Bencode Parsing in Swift |
| Words | 1099 |
This is my personal portfolio and blog site - my own little section of the Internet!
I probably won't post a whole lot, but I may occasionally post my thoughts on my studies, personal projects, or some music reviews.
For now, I will simply leave a few links to some songs I've been enjoying lately - enjoy!
| Author | Jed Simson |
| Date | July 14, 2016 |
| Filename | 2016-07-14-Welcome.md |
| Filesize | 658 |
| Last Modified | Thu, 04 Jun 2020 |
| Post ID | blog_post_1 |
| Summary | The very first post for my blog! |
| Tags | first post, personal |
| Title | Welcome |
| Words | 57 |