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. ----- 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)