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Bencode (pronounced like Bee-encode) is the encoding used by the peer-to-peer file sharing system BitTorrent for storing and transmitting loosely structured data.[1]

It supports four different types of values:

  • byte strings,
  • integers,
  • lists, and
  • dictionaries (associative arrays).

Bencoding is most commonly used in torrent files, and as such is part of the BitTorrent specification. These metadata files are simply bencoded dictionaries.

Bencoding is simple and (because numbers are encoded as text in decimal notation) is unaffected by endianness, which is important for a cross-platform application like BitTorrent. It is also fairly flexible, as long as applications ignore unexpected dictionary keys, so that new ones can be added without creating incompatibilities.

  1. ^ The BitTorrent Protocol Specification Archived 2019-07-26 at the Wayback Machine. BitTorrent.org. Retrieved 8 October 2018.

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