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

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It supports four different types of values:

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• 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.

While less efficient than a pure binary encoding,^{[citation needed]} 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.

Encoding algorithm[edit]

Bencode uses ASCII characters as delimiters and digits.

• An integer is encoded as i<integer encoded in base ten ASCII>e. Leading zeros are not allowed (although the number zero is still represented as '0'). Negative values are encoded by prefixing the number with a hyphen-minus. The number 42 would thus be encoded as i42e, 0 as i0e, and -42 as i-42e. Negative zero is not permitted.
• A byte string (a sequence of bytes, not necessarily characters) is encoded as <length>:<contents>. The length is encoded in base 10, like integers, but must be non-negative (zero is allowed); the contents are just the bytes that make up the string. The string 'spam' would be encoded as 4:spam. The specification does not deal with encoding of characters outside the ASCII set; to mitigate this, some BitTorrent applications explicitly communicate the encoding (most commonly UTF-8) in various non-standard ways. This is identical to how netstrings work, except that netstrings additionally append a comma suffix after the byte sequence.
• A list of values is encoded as l<contents>e . The contents consist of the bencoded elements of the list, in order, concatenated. A list consisting of the string 'spam' and the number 42 would be encoded as: l4:spami42ee. Note the absence of separators between elements, and the first character is the letter 'l', not digit '1'.
• A dictionary is encoded as d<contents>e. The elements of the dictionary are encoded with each key immediately followed by its value. All keys must be byte strings and must appear in lexicographical order. A dictionary that associates the values 42 and 'spam' with the keys 'foo' and 'bar', respectively (in other words, {'bar': 'spam', 'foo': 42}), would be encoded as follows: d3:bar4:spam3:fooi42ee.

There are no restrictions on what kind of values may be stored in lists and dictionaries; they may (and usually do) contain other lists and dictionaries. This allows for arbitrarily complex data structures to be encoded.

Features & drawbacks[edit]

Bencode is a very specialized kind of binary coding with some unique properties:

• For each possible (complex) value, there is only a single valid bencoding; i.e. there is a bijection between values and their encodings. This has the advantage that applications may compare bencoded values by comparing their encoded forms, eliminating the need to decode the values.
• Many BE codegroups can be decoded manually. Since the bencoded values often contain binary data, decoding may become quite complex. Bencode is not considered a human-readable encoding format.
• Bencoding serves similar purposes as data languages like JSON and YAML, allowing complex yet loosely structured data to be stored in a platform independent way.

However, this uniqueness can cause some problems:

• There are very few bencode editors^[2]
• Because bencoded files contain binary data, and because of some of the intricacies involved in the way binary strings are typically stored, it is often not safe to edit bencode files in text editors.

See also[edit]

References[edit]

1. ^The BitTorrent Protocol Specification. BitTorrent.org. Retrieved 8 October 2018.
2. ^'BEncode Editor'. μTorrent Community Forums. Retrieved 24 October 2014.

External links[edit]

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• File_Bittorrent2 - Another PHP Bencode/decode implementation
• BEncode Editor a visual editor for BEncoded files
• Torrent File Editor cross-platform GUI editor for BEncode files
• bencode-tools - a C library for manipulating bencoded data and a XML schema like validator for bencode messages in Python
• Bento - Bencode library in Elixir.
• Beecoder - the file stream parser that de/encoding 'B-encode' data format on Java using java.io.* stream Api.

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This script searches for and decodes bencoded files used as part of the BitTorrent peer-to-peer file sharing protocol.
These files are capable of storing two types of internal folders, dictionaries and lists, as well as numeric values and byte-strings. The latter is the type used to store text.
BitTorrent metadata ('.Torrent') files are the most common form of file that is stored in bencoded format. That said, bencoded files are also used to store configuration data for BitTorrent client applications such as uTorrent and Azureus/Vuze.
Note that a bencoded file is purely a carrier of data. Notwithstanding the fact that '.Torrent' files have a fairly well-defined structure, bencoded application-configuration-files differ from client to client. This means that it's not always possible to identify the significance of a bencoded value, nor is it always possible to identify the format in which such a value is stored. For instance, Azureus is a Java application so it stores some date/time data in Java format rather than Unix format. Azureus has also been seen to use bencoded byte-strings to store Base-64 encoded data.
The script works at two levels. It first checks to see if a file has a bencode signature. If it does, then it will attempt to decode the file. Regardless of the result, the script will then proceed to search slack space for bencoded data. If a file does not have a bencode signature, then only its slack space is processed. Unallocated space objects are searched in a similar way albeit there is no preliminary file-signature-check for obvious reasons.
When searching slack or unallocated areas the script uses a case-sensitive, ANSI GREP term of 'd#+:'. Many occurences of this term are likely to be found in a bencoded file so it only processes those hits that occur at the start of a sector, i.e. those that are likely to indicate the root bencode directory at the start of the file.
The script will only bookmark data where it believes it's been able to parse that data from beginning to end without error. This methodology may result in a number of bencode file fragments from being excluded but it does mean that the data that is recovered is more likely to be complete and easier to examine.
The user has the option to specify the bookmark folder name, the entries to process and also the bencoded value/field names that should be interpreted as UNIX dates/times (where possible). Java dates/times are not currently supported.
Note that any byte-string that has a length that is an exact multiple of 20 bytes will be treated as a hash-list containing one or more SHA-1 hash values. The byte-string will be shown as a virtual folder and each hash value will be shown as a child-object of that folder. Not only that but a SHA-1 hash will also be calculated of the entire hash-list. This enables the examiner to more easily compare a set of hash values calculated using the BitTorrent Hash List Calculator EnScript.
This version of the script interprets 'peers' and 'peers6' byte-string values as a list of peer IP-address and port-numbers usually stored by the µTorrent BitTorrent application in resume.dat configuration files. Any such value will be shown as a virtual folder containing a child-object representing each peer.
BitTorrent clients use a SHA1 hash of the 'info' dictionary as the torrent hash to uniquely identify each torrent download with peers and trackers. This script calculates this hash and bookmarks it.
With the torrent hash, a 'magnet' link can be generated for a BitTorrent client to discover peers and start downloading the torrent data. This script makes another bookmark with the magnet URL.

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