davidc502 Posted April 11, 2014 Report Share Posted April 11, 2014 I've been reading up on Utorrent's Message Stream Encryption (RC4) "obfuscation" which is fairly weak. Is there or are there any plans to develop stronger encryption for future versions? thanks, David Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidc502 Posted April 12, 2014 Author Report Share Posted April 12, 2014 Just thinking about it, but it sounds like a UTorrent Plus feature. It would be a feature I would be willing to pay 20 bucks for! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted April 12, 2014 Report Share Posted April 12, 2014 Honestly, given the purpose of the encryption, why would we need stronger encryption? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidc502 Posted April 12, 2014 Author Report Share Posted April 12, 2014 Because ISP's can see and un-scramble obfuscation with ease and on the fly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kitsoran Posted April 15, 2014 Report Share Posted April 15, 2014 You don't just develop your own encryption. You use expert proven methods. It doesn't matter if they can decode it, there's plenty of other unprotected data they can use to see what you're up to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidc502 Posted April 15, 2014 Author Report Share Posted April 15, 2014 I never said Utorrent should develop thier own flavor of encryption. What I was meaning was Utorrent should be developed to use a stronger form of encryption. Even WireShark now comes with obfuscation descrambling built right in, and will unscramble on the fly. So, you know if a free tool like Wireshark can do it on an old PC, any ISP can do the same thing. What I'm saying is obfuscation doesn't serve a purpose anymore because it does absolutely nothing to keep the type of traffic generated either safe or desguised. At this point in time there's no benifit to use it. I understand "encryption" kinda goes against what torrenting stands for, but it doesn't mean torrent users should just stick thier necks out. Fortunately there are options.... Using a VPN service is one example. However, wouldn't it just be easier to encorporate some form of true encryption into Utorrent? Let's do something to keep Utorrent at the fore-front of technology. Thanks, David Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted April 15, 2014 Report Share Posted April 15, 2014 Let's stop pretending that "stronger encryption" will actually help hide content from anti-p2p groups. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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