Re: Bittorrent

2009-02-20 Thread slush
Great tip about torifying only connection to tracker. It works like a charm in Deluge and I feel a little bit safer on torrents. Thanks for interesting discussion. Marek

Re: Bittorrent

2009-02-20 Thread Ted Smith
On Fri, 2009-02-20 at 11:24 -0400, Freemor wrote: > On Fri, 20 Feb 2009 15:36:12 +0100 (CET) > "Marco Bonetti" wrote: > > > On Fri, February 20, 2009 15:02, Freemor wrote: > > > > As you can see at > > http://jonas.nitro.dk/bittorrent/bittorrent-rfc.html#anchor18 the "ip" > > field is totally

Re: Bittorrent

2009-02-20 Thread Marco Bonetti
On Fri, February 20, 2009 16:24, Freemor wrote: > The way I read this it will be the IP that was reported to the Tracker > that is included unless none was reported. So if your client is > reporting an your IP address (optimal for transfers/ not optimal for > privacy) yes, the tracker will register

Re: Bittorrent

2009-02-20 Thread Freemor
On Fri, 20 Feb 2009 15:36:12 +0100 (CET) "Marco Bonetti" wrote: > On Fri, February 20, 2009 15:02, Freemor wrote: > As you can see at > http://jonas.nitro.dk/bittorrent/bittorrent-rfc.html#anchor18 the "ip" > field is totally optional (many bt clients let you specify your real > ip, usually af

Re: Bittorrent

2009-02-20 Thread Freemor
On Fri, 20 Feb 2009 15:36:12 +0100 (CET) "Marco Bonetti" wrote: > On Fri, February 20, 2009 15:02, Freemor wrote: > > but what gets reported to the tracker is your actual IP > > as without that the other peers would be unable to connect to you. > It's not that simple. > [snip] Thanks for the cl

Re: Bittorrent

2009-02-20 Thread Marco Bonetti
On Fri, February 20, 2009 15:02, Freemor wrote: > but what gets reported to the tracker is your actual IP > as without that the other peers would be unable to connect to you. It's not that simple. I've just took a look at http://jonas.nitro.dk/bittorrent/bittorrent-rfc.html it's the first hit on "

Re: Bittorrent

2009-02-20 Thread Freemor
On Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:21:33 -0800 "F. Fox" wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > Ted Smith wrote: > (snip) > It's not perfect - since transfers are still done in the clear - but > it does thwart the current most commonly used method for enumerating > users (i.e., scra

Re: Bittorrent

2009-02-20 Thread Marco Bonetti
On Thu, February 19, 2009 18:30, Dieter Zinke wrote: > To germerhausen and Bonetti: Please don' t use or-talk's email for your > flameware. I don' t know about germerhausen, ok, I shouldn't have send the last mail, but I read the strip just a moment after the previous flame mail: I had hard time tr