rain Posted September 28, 2007 Report Share Posted September 28, 2007 what is protocol encryption... for my utorrent the outgoing protocol encryption was disabled... should it stay like that or should i put it to enabled... the box for allowing in coming legacy connetion is already checked... sorry if this question sounds stupid.. but i really don't know what this means.. i would appreciate if someone can explain it to me.. thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted September 28, 2007 Report Share Posted September 28, 2007 Encryption helps some people get by ISP throttling of BitTorrent traffic. There's almost no point leaving it disabled, so just enable it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rain Posted September 28, 2007 Author Report Share Posted September 28, 2007 i enabled the outgoing box.... thank you for the help Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lowen Posted October 2, 2007 Report Share Posted October 2, 2007 I argue it should be enabled by deafult, dunno why it isn't... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The8472 Posted October 3, 2007 Report Share Posted October 3, 2007 it's not necessary since passive support is always enabled (cannot be disabled) and the requirement to use encryption is spread via PEX. No need to default it to on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drkp Posted February 17, 2009 Report Share Posted February 17, 2009 I knew that passive support is always enable for incoming connections, but not for outgoing connection, or is passive enable of both forms??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted March 9, 2009 Report Share Posted March 9, 2009 I'm not sure...but I think even outgoing disabled you can end up with headers encrypted but not bulk traffic if the other end demands it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted March 9, 2009 Report Share Posted March 9, 2009 I might be mistaken, but I don't believe µTorrent elevates the outgoing connection encryption level passively. The only time µTorrent will encrypt a connection when outgoing encryption is disabled is when an incoming connection is encrypted. That another peer "demands" it would place the onus on that particular peer to attempt an incoming encrypted connection to you, which would be passive, but would still fall under incoming connections.http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=52094See this for a feature request that falls somewhere between active and passive encryption (that is, it's a request to allow µTorrent to prefer unencrypted outgoing connections rather than encrypted). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted March 9, 2009 Report Share Posted March 9, 2009 µTorrent's disabled mode will still encrypt INCOMING connections that demand it (and encryption is obviously two-way), be it header-only or full encryption.In addition, if PEX is enabled and active, exchanged peerlists can indicate whether a peer wants encryption or not. In this case, uTorrent can still initiate an encrypted connection even if set to disabled. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted March 11, 2009 Report Share Posted March 11, 2009 That last part confuzzled me. You're saying that just because a peer hints (through PEX) that it only accepts encrypted connections, it could potentially force µTorrent to attempt encrypted outgoing connections despite the fact that the user tells µTorrent not to make encrypted outgoing connections...? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted March 13, 2009 Report Share Posted March 13, 2009 Correct. But it would only be doing this for peers that explicitly said they wanted encrypted connections.The setting is effectively just for non-hinted connections. In fact, if we add support for the crypto tracker extension, it's going to behave the same way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted March 13, 2009 Report Share Posted March 13, 2009 Ah. Fair enough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted March 13, 2009 Report Share Posted March 13, 2009 That being said, peers can't indicate they -don't- want encryption, so there currently isn't a situation where forcing it wouldn't result in encrypted outgoing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
searchersouth Posted March 31, 2009 Report Share Posted March 31, 2009 I have been reading up on torrent encryption and ran across the following website https://torrentprivacy.com/?id=trthat claims to hide your IP, provides SSH protocol with 128 bit encryption, etc. Does uTorrent already provide this support with their encryption protocol? If not, what is your opinion of this service, generally speaking?Any advice you can provide will be APPRECIATED. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted April 1, 2009 Report Share Posted April 1, 2009 They provide you with an SSH proxy (and a local socks proxy to use it with). Any program that supports SOCKS can use it, which µTorrent does. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted April 1, 2009 Report Share Posted April 1, 2009 Then the issue becomes just WHO are you routing all your traffic through? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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