BitTorrent

A bittorrent client made to...grok bittorrent. And C++!

• bencode.hpp to bencode/bdecode torrent files
• libcurl to manipulate url strings
• openssl for SHA1 hashing
• argparse to handle command line arguments

File Structure

• include folder holds all header files (.h)
• src folder holds all source code (.cpp)
• test folder for unit tests

Usage

mkdir build 
cd build 
cmake ..  
make
./torrent

TODO

• Close client after verifying hash of torrented file

Sources

https://wiki.theory.org/BitTorrentSpecification

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