README

cppbencode - Bencode serialization library for C++ STL Copyright 2011 Janne Kulmala janne.t.kulmala@iki.fi

Program code is licensed with GNU LGPL 2.1. See COPYING.LGPL file.

See the example program for basic usage.

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Why bencode?

While less efficient than a pure binary encoding, bencoding is simple and (because numbers are encoded 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. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bencode)