Comments on: Why Encrypting BitTorrent Traffic Is Good

By: Nihar

Nihar — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 06:12:18 +0000

Can you let me know hoe to encrypt the traffic in BitTorrent?

By: Robbo

Robbo — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 09:54:12 +0000

In most countries with “unlimited” Internet plans, ISPs are not responsible for the content of their caches, therefore, they could legally cache as many bittorrent blocks as they like without any legal issues. The issue is that Bram was late to the party – people had been requesting extra support in the protocol for caching for a long time before he added his pitifully documented implementation. I think the most responsible thing that Bram could do now is to write a sample bittorrent cache server that plays well with clients, and simply stores blocks without logging (and preferably without enough information to log meaningfully). Something that ISPs could drop in today with minimal hassle.

On another note, somebody should write a personal bittorrent cache, which simply latches onto popular torrents and helps to seed – with the aim of plausible deniability. Where FreeNet is legal, so should this be.

By: Stijepan Blazevic Cabach

Stijepan Blazevic Cabach — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 14:15:40 +0000

I have to accord with the author in some things, encryptation it’s for now, and for users control, the best solution.
I’m from Chile and here most of the ISP do traffic shapping, and it’s been discussed in high levels, from users of the community to parlammentaries, but fromm now we don’t have a thing to do beside encryptation. I have 2mb bandwidth and some time ago i couldn’t download more than 1kb/s, wtf that speed if not acceptable.

thanks

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By: Johnny

Johnny — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 19:12:30 +0000

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By: Gouss

Gouss — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 13:22:43 +0000

[quote comment="32358"][quote comment="32344"]re: ” … DHT, an invention by Bram Cohen that was implemented in other clients soon afterwards … ”
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changed the wording ;)[/quote]

It’s still not correct though as it is Azureus that introduced DHT into the BT world, and then Bram chose to implement another flavor in his client.

As for Bram “choice” to implement encryption I don’t think it’s because it became “good” to his eyes, it’s simply because it became a necessity to not be left behind.

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All in a days work… — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 03:10:29 +0000

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By: Fullmetalpanic

Fullmetalpanic — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 02:03:01 +0000

But when you think about it… when lots of people start using encryption it WILL be discovered and ways to counter WILL be found.

Let’s say every torrent user would encrypt his BT-traffic, don’t you think isp’s would find it weird that all the default BT-traffic has disappeared and then something new starts to slurp alot of bandwidth from them?