New BitTorrent Encryption on the way!

finaly some more improvement in encryption even tho i dont have any problems with seeding of course

anyway good news for all

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Originally Posted by rvt

Now all we need is a cheaper way to get signed certificates, without all the address verification crap verisign likes to do.

A self signed SSL cert leaves you open to a man in the middle attack by your ISP, unless your client supports storage of trusted self signed certs.

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http://www.startcom.org/

these guys offer free ssl certs, though ff & ie complain about them being untrusted (read the forums). apparently the big boys dont like the idea of free ones

i got 2 certs one for a genuine address, and one for a random address from the phone book :naughty:

good alternative to paying for one :D

I already read about that and I have to say that's really great news. BT community always have to be one step forward against ISPs like Comcast.

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Originally Posted by The Wanderer

BT community always have to be one step forward against ISPs like Comcast.

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Nope, the general BT community always has to be standing behind anything Bram and his buddies say, even if it's horseshit :P

Ask any sysops how willing they would be to implement SSL on their sites.
Now try the same thing, but this time ask them how willing they would be to implement a custom RC4 encryption cipher into their trackers.

Edit: if you want to see how far behind the rest of the world BT.inc actually is, http://bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0012.html
They list announce-list (which allows multiple trackers) as a draft spec. Nothing they could do could stop everyone else using it, as it has been in standard use for a while now.

BT is so powerful and unstoppable all ISPS should just give up.