On Tue, 7 Feb 2006, Adam Fields wrote: > Over the past months more Bittorrent users noticed that their ISP is > killing all Bittorrent traffic . ISP?s like Rogers are using bit- > shaping applications to throttle the traffic that is generated by > Bittorrent.
A better solution is to stop paying to ISP which does not provide you with what you have paid for. > This item was posted to the IP list today about some efforts to add > encryption to bittorrent for the sole purpose of disguising the > traffic. > > A side note is that they're using known insecure encryption methods as > a cpu tradeoff because it doesn't matter if the traffic is decrypted > eventually, as long as it can't be revealed in realtime. That's > possibly shortsighted, but still interesting. Since one can easily encrypt >60 Mb/s with AES on a modern computer it does not matter what algorithm to use (unless, of course, you have a wider than 60 MB/s connection). BTW, if ISP really wants to slow down bittorrent it can use some other methods: there is usually constant port (6881, IIRC), and quite specific communication patern. -- Regards, ASK --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
