Traffic Shaping

[dunno99]

I'm not sure where this goes, so I'll just post it here and hope the people that this matters to will catch this.

As we all know, a lot of internet service providers contract their traffic shaping solutions. So I ended up talking to this guy who said he worked at some internet traffic shaping company. He said that not a lot of solutions filter out bittorrent encryption, but they managed to find a way to avoid the encryption altogether. Their solution relies on the fact that the tracker traffic isn't encrypted (or something to that effect), and then using that info to filter out/limit those traffic. So maybe the next step is to make that part encrypted too?

Just a heads up. (I suppose some people might be aware of this problem already...but just in case)

[Firon]

yeah, it's nothing special (there's many ways around encryption, most are just not feasible), and something that SSL would probably solve.

[Zatla]

there are ways to encrypt the the tracker communications already... you can use Tor for that.

You can get tor from: http://tor.eff.org

And here is the setting for it: http://wiki.noreply.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/TorifyHOWTO#BitTorrent

[Firon]

Doesn't work that well since you can't get incoming connections.

[Zatla]

hmm.. i tested and i got a connection with the tracker, first it said something about 'invalid transfercoding', then i got 'functional' and i got conneted with peers, i didn't had dht on... only if you get the response from the tracker wth the information about the peers it should work... right?