letjahloveshinetru Posted November 27, 2011 Report Share Posted November 27, 2011 Is outgoing encryption necessary if I am connected through a VPN? Will disabling outgoing encryption improve speeds? Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vincelaconte Posted November 28, 2011 Report Share Posted November 28, 2011 I use a VPN with µTorrent and it works the same as no VPN, with or without Protocol Encryption. As I understand it (http://user.utorrent.com/help/faq/features#faq1), PE is less about security and more about "traffic shaping", so the two are not (necessarily) in conflict.Whether enabling/disabling PE affects overall bandwidth... not really, in the long run. Turning it off limits your uploading options (it doesn't apply to downloading), and prevents those probably only to a small fraction of a torrent's peers. If one of those happens to have the fattest pipe, though... your loss. Turning it on, OTOH, seems to add little if any bandwidth overhead, and it gives you a few more peers to peer.BTW, an informal poll of the peer flags in my ~20 currently active torrents would indicate that ~80% enable full encryption, ~20% handshake-only or none.Occupy Protocol Encryption : We Are The 80%! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted November 28, 2011 Report Share Posted November 28, 2011 Turning it off limits your uploading options (it doesn't apply to downloading)Incorrect. Protocol Encryption happens regardless of connection direction when it's enabled. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vincelaconte Posted November 28, 2011 Report Share Posted November 28, 2011 OK, I guess I misunderstood the relevant part of the FAQ (below), and confused incoming/outgoing with downloading/uploading. What I think I meant was “it doesn’t apply to [blocking] incoming connections” — at least not without turning off the “legacy” switch? Sorry if this is off-topic and rather trivial, just trying to understand.Disabled: Does not encrypt outgoing connections, but will accept encrypted incoming connections.Enabled: Attempts to encrypt outgoing connections, but will fall back to an unencrypted mode if the connection fails.Force: Attempts to encrypt outgoing connections, and will NOT fall back to an unencrypted mode if the connection fails.Allow legacy incoming connections enables or disables incoming legacy (non-encrypted) connections.All modes will accept incoming encrypted connections (and the encryption is 2-way)! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted November 28, 2011 Report Share Posted November 28, 2011 If you have Outgoing enabled and allow legacy, your connections will prefer encryption, but not require it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
letjahloveshinetru Posted November 29, 2011 Author Report Share Posted November 29, 2011 Thanks for the helpful info. Got a copyright email from Comcast this morning. I route all traffic through a VPN connection in OS X. WTF?Edit: Do I need to disable DHT and PEX? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted November 29, 2011 Report Share Posted November 29, 2011 Using a VPN, no you don't need to disable DHT and PEX.http://dmca.cs.washington.edu/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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