fegul
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join:2004-08-23
united state
| Benefits to encrypting BT
What exactly are the benefits to encrypting BT traffic? I know it helps get around throttling, but does it add any form of anonymity to downloading? I dont suspect that it would right?
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hroo772
Darkness Fears Me
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join:2002-04-05
Mclean, VA
clubs: | If you sniffed the traffic you would still be seeing the source and destination IP addresses. So I wouldn't think that would help at all. |
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shearer
Northern Lights
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join:2002-06-18
Toronto, ON
clubs:
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said by fegul  :I know it helps get around throttling.... That's the only benefit I can think of right now. |
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urbanriot
join:2004-10-18
St Catharines, ON
 ·Cogeco Cable
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Using a torrent client that doesn't support encryption fallback (the ability to connect to clients not using encryption) would actually prevent you from accessing many clients.
Too many people are taking bad advice and cranking up the encryption, causing them to be seperated from a lot of clients.
Regardles... these days most packet shaping and disrupting devices that ISP's are using have the ability to differentiate between torrent packets, encrypted or otherwise. The last time I played with Packeteer it had a hard time with RC4 encrypted torrent traffic, but that may have changed.
My advice - don't use it unless it's absolutely necessary. |
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Selenia
@209.8.x.x
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Best advice-enable it with fallback, not only out of compassion for throttled users(though you should have some) but it will help you download. You'll be able to connect to both kinds of clients and if the encrypted user beats throttling by you having it enabled, you'll download off him/her much faster, making life better for both of you(especially if the only seeder is throttled). Far as privacy, I agree, not much. It may only help with sniffers seeing *what* you're downloading/uploading, but it won't hide the fact you're filesharing or your IP from anyone in the swarm. |
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