Using Utorrent's Encryption Protocol

[johncarter1545]

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.

Thanks

John

[Lord Alderaan]

No. µTorrent encryption is ONLY to try and circumvent certain ISP traffic shaping/blocking techniques and provides NO privacy or security at all.

[johncarter1545]

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

[jewelisheaven]

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.

[Lord Alderaan]

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.

[bugmenot]

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?

[Firon]

Encryption does not hide your IP.

[enjay415]

oh fo sho, i applied the "forced" option and now im seeding some files =D