BitTorrent v2 is intended to work seamlessly with previous versions of the BitTorrent protocol. The main reason for the update was that the old cryptographic hash function, SHA-1 is no longer considered safe from malicious attacks by the developers, and as such, v2 uses SHA-256. To ensure backwards compatibility, the v2 .torrent file format supports a hybrid mode where the torrents are hashed through both the new method and the old method, with the intent that the files will be shared with peers on both v1 and v2 swarms. Another update to the specification is adding a hash tree to speed up time from adding a torrent to downloading files, and to allow more granular checks for file corruption. In addition, each file is now hashed individually, enabling files in the swarm to be deduplicated, so that if multiple torrents include the same files, but seeders are only seeding the file from some, downloaders of the other torrents can still download the file. Magnet links for v2 also support a hybrid mode to ensure support for legacy clients.[13]
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In one of the outlying streets of Moscow, in a grey house with white columnsand a balcony, warped all askew, there was once living a lady, a widow,surrounded by a numerous household of serfs. Her sons were in the governmentservice at Petersburg; her daughters were married; she went out very little,and in solitude lived through the last years of her miserly and dreary old age.Her day, a joyless and gloomy day, had long been over; but the evening of herlife was blacker than night.
Gerasim walked without haste, still holding Mumu by a string. When he got tothe corner of the street, he stood still as though reflecting, and suddenly setoff with rapid steps to the Crimean Ford. On the way he went into the yard of ahouse, where a lodge was being built, and carried away two bricks under hisarm. At the Crimean Ford, he turned along the bank, went to a place where therewere two little rowing-boats fastened to stakes (he had noticed them therebefore), and jumped into one of them with Mumu. A lame old man came out of ashed in the corner of a kitchen-garden and shouted after him; but Gerasim onlynodded, and began rowing so vigorously, though against stream, that in aninstant he had darted two hundred yards away. The old man stood for a while,scratched his back first with the left and then with the right hand, and wentback hobbling to the shed.
Dan Tocchini, 39, a self-employed software engineer, and his 32-year-old wife, Isha, a freelance photographer, rented the mobile home when Aeon was just a baby. They fell in love with the 13 acres that came with it, plenty of room for Isha to raise goats and chickens and train horses and for Aeon to follow along with his little John Deere wheelbarrow. As the rain poured down and huge gusts bent the trees, Isha went out to cloak the horses in blankets.
Erin Allday is a health reporter who writes about infectious diseases, stem cells, neuroscience and consumer health topics like fitness and nutrition. She's been on the health beat since 2006 (minus a nine-month stint covering Mayor Gavin Newsom). Before joining The Chronicle, Erin worked at newspapers all over the Bay Area and covered a little of everything, including business and technology, city government, and education. She was part of a reporting team that won a Polk Award for regional reporting in 2005, for a series of stories on outsourcing jobs from Santa Rosa to Penang, Malaysia. Erin started her journalism career at the Daily Californian student newspaper and many years later still calls Berkeley her home.
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