Re: Securing your P2P Questions

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From: Andrew Rybenkov
Date: Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:47

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> Is forcing your P2P program to encrypt its data sessions actually
> worthwhile? For instance in UTorrent I have encryption set to forced,
> but it seems to me that in todays day and age this would mean very little.
>
> I've got nothing to hide other than a few downloaded episodes, but I've
> always been a security nut about information and data so it's something
> I've been wondering about.
>

Torrent encryption is not to make you safe, it is to fool your ISP.
Some ISPs do not like torrenters, as they usually increase traffic load, so
they implement some daemons to recognize torrent packets and 'punish' you
by decreasing your download speed, for example.
So the encryption is to mask torrent packets as something else.

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From: "Andrew Rybenkov" <aryb...@gmail.com>
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