johncarter1545 Posted December 12, 2007 Report Share Posted December 12, 2007 Greetings,Does enabling the encryption protocol does this mean that all your entire connection is encrypted? Does your IP number get encrypted also?I use anonymizer anonymous "surfing". Does this mean that my utorrent connection is encrypted? All web surfing is encrypted but does that mean that utorrent is encrypted as well or does the data sent by utorrent go via a different channel than the normal web data such as data going through the http://www protocol.ThanksJohn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Alderaan Posted December 12, 2007 Report Share Posted December 12, 2007 No. µTorrent encryption is ONLY to try and circumvent certain ISP traffic shaping/blocking techniques and provides NO privacy or security at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johncarter1545 Posted December 12, 2007 Author Report Share Posted December 12, 2007 Thanks for the reply. I have two questions:Question 1: Does Utorrent use the same protocol to send data across the web as other data transferred during normal surfing?Question 2: Does anybody know exactly what does utorrent encrypt when you are recieving and sending data?Thanks John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jewelisheaven Posted December 12, 2007 Report Share Posted December 12, 2007 You want the search page. Wikipedia came up as the get lucky response.If you don't really want the technical details, there are two basic options for encryption, just the handshake/header packets, or all traffic between peers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Alderaan Posted December 12, 2007 Report Share Posted December 12, 2007 Q1: Some of the traffic described by BitTorrent is pretty much identical to http (you might say it employs http in those cases). Some of it isn't. And it IS possible to filter out BitTorrent communication from normal http communication. Thats one of the things that becomes more difficult to do for 3rd parties with encryption enabled.Q2: µtorrent encryption encrypts the headers of data packets that are send between peers so that these packets are not easily identified as BitTorrent traffic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bugmenot Posted January 9, 2008 Report Share Posted January 9, 2008 So would this mean that using encrypted internet surfing feature through anonymizer would hide your IP and instead anonymizers IP from their proxy server would be broadcast is that right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted January 9, 2008 Report Share Posted January 9, 2008 Encryption does not hide your IP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enjay415 Posted September 21, 2009 Report Share Posted September 21, 2009 oh fo sho, i applied the "forced" option and now im seeding some files =D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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