Torrent hash and magnet

[loukas.bizarro]

The torrent hash is a unique identification alphanumeric number. The magnet link contains the hash and some other information. When I choose to "Copy magnet link", the magnet link I get does not contain the right hash but some other random number. Any ideas why? Is this a bug, or this is suppose to happen? I am using the latest Windows version on Windows 8.1.

[sledgehammer_999]

Hello fellow greek :p

Anyway, the magnet uri scheme for torrents(btih) can take 2 kinds of data. Either a sha-1 hash (what you see in qbt's general tab, and in every other site as info-hash) or a base32 encoded string of the info-hash.

base32 is considered the most compatible because it is the older one(and because vuze supports only base32 as per the wiki page).
What you have there is a base32 encoded hash (count the characters, they're 32 characters vs 40(sha1))

[loukas.bizarro]

I understand now. But in whatever tracker I visit, I only see the sha1 hash (as you mentioned), and I can search torrents only by using that. Anyway, from now on I'll just copy the hash from the "General" tab.