AegisXLII Posted February 16, 2009 Report Share Posted February 16, 2009 I can't seem to figure this out -how does uTorrent implement PE? Are only the headers encrypted, or the full stream? And what effect does this have on how/if my ISP can determine what I'm downloading? Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted February 16, 2009 Report Share Posted February 16, 2009 uTorrent can encrypt the whole stream between peers/seeds and you.But some legacy (unencrypted) peers/seeds are allowed if you tell it to.Tracker communication is NOT encrypted, but is done using HTTP+TCP connections.HTTPS tracker communication I *think* may be supported, but almost no trackers allow it. DHT as far as I know is not encrypted either...Peer Exchange, as part of a peer/seed datastream SHOULD be encrypted if that peer/seed is encrypted.Similar thread:http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=54075 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drkp Posted February 17, 2009 Report Share Posted February 17, 2009 AegisXLIIIn wikipedia i found that old version of bitcomet use only header encription, but lots of years ago....http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent_protocol_encryptionutorrent support MSE/PE (message stream encription/protocol encription), that is the same but in utorrent use PE, the other clients use the name MSE, but is the same thing.utorrent support eencripted and unencripted connection, but i know that support passive incoming connections when the PE is disable. I don't know if suport PE passively for outgoing connections.PE was implemented for jump ISP protections, but you can read http://www.tcs.hut.fi/Publications/bbrumley/nordsec08_brumley_valkonen.pdfbittorrent encryption has some weaks, but commonly if you use protocol encription PE of utorrent, you can break some isp restrictions.But in internet i found some weeks ago that any europe or german ISP now can break Protocol encription of bittorrent, with any type of hardware, but it's rare.I recomend to use utorrent with PE in force and unchecked "allow incoming legacy connections", but only after you test that PE with enable option dont work.This recomendation i found in any other place but I don't remember where Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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