Extended BitTorrent Client and Tracker

Hi, I am integrating torrent functionality into my website, using xbtt as a backend. For various reasons I will have another torrent table which will store torrent hashes. Right now I am just storing them as varcar, but as I have noticed xbtt uses binary to store them. So how can I store them on my table properly to compare them to the xbtt torrents table for matches? Thanks

See MySQL functions hex/unhex.

I thought so, but I thought I'd check - better safe then sorry :) Thanks a lot!