Crate rustydht_lib

A library for working with BitTorrent’s “mainline” distributed hash table (DHT).

Supported BEPs

• BEP0005 (DHT Protocol)
• BEP0032 (IPv6 extension for DHT)
• BEP0033 (DHT scrape)
• BEP0042 (DHT Security Extension)
• BEP0043 (Read-only DHT Nodes)
• BEP0044 (Storing arbitrary data in the DHT)
• BEP0045 (Multiple-address operation for the BitTorrent DHT)
• BEP0046 (Updating Torrents Via DHT Mutable Items)
• BEP0051 (DHT Infohash Indexing)

Modules

• common
  Miscellaneous common structs used throughout the library
• dht
  Structs and functions with the core business logic of the DHT
• errors
  library-specific error enums
• packets
  Structs and functions for representing DHT messages and serializing and deserializing them
• shutdown
  A utility for signaling that an async task should do a clean shutdown, and a utility listening for such signals
• storage
  Data structures used in the DHT - node buckets, peer storage, etc.