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+# rqbit - bittorrent client in Rust
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+crates/rqbit - main binary
+crates/librqbit - main library
+crates/librqbit-core - torrent utils
+crates/bencode - bencode serializing/deserializing
+crates/buffers - wrappers around binary buffers
+crates/clone_to_owned - a trait to make something owned
+crates/sha1w - wrappers around sha1 libraries
+crates/peer_binary_protocol - the protocol to talk to peers
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