Torrent And Encryption

belnea2976 · 10 Apr 2009 at 19:38

Hi all, just wondering what torrent application you use, and also do any of you bother using torrent encryption, and also what do you set your upload speed to?

Trifid · 10 Apr 2009 at 20:23

uTorrent, latest non beta build. Encryption enabled (not forced) with incoming legacy connections enabled. Upload is set to 190KB/s, can get just over 200KB/s through my line.

1kiwi · 11 Apr 2009 at 14:16

By accepting incoming legacy connections does that not negate encryption? I.e., some connections are AS-IS.

Trifid · 11 Apr 2009 at 14:23

beh* said:
By accepting incoming legacy connections does that not negate encryption? I.e., some connections are AS-IS.

Yes it does. Not too bothered by it though. I am not traffic shaped and it doesn't really add that much security.

1kiwi · 11 Apr 2009 at 20:17

Well, if your using forced encryption i assume that all connections through bittorrent are encrypted and apart from the fact that you are obviously using P2P anyone including your ISP will be unable to determine exactly what your downloading?

Dist · 11 Apr 2009 at 20:40

beh* said:
Well, if your using forced encryption i assume that all connections through bittorrent are encrypted and apart from the fact that you are obviously using P2P anyone including your ISP will be unable to determine exactly what your downloading?

If you are downloading something you shouldn't, say a mp3 track you dont own the rights to, using encryption wont stop the RIAA simply connecting to the tracker and harvesting all the IPs (including yours).

All encryption does is stop anyone between you and the destination knowing what the data your sending is. It doesn't stop law enforcement or even companies like the RIAA finding out who is downloading illegaly, and taking legal action against them.