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> I'm skeptical of these figures. Nearly all BitTorrent traffic is encrypted and is indistinguishable from HTTPS/SSL traffic. Since when? While most Bittorrent

> I'm skeptical of these figures. Nearly all BitTorrent traffic is encrypted and is indistinguishable from HTTPS/SSL traffic. Since when? While most Bittorrent traffic uses encryption, but that encryption is not SSL, it does not use standard HTTP or HTTPS ports, in fact it often uses uTP which is not even TCP but UDP based. No bittorrent client I'm aware of makes any attempt to masquerade as HTTPS traffic. Some VPNs do, but that's about it. Bittorrent traffic using these protocols is trivially detectable and measurable, you just can't see inside of the connections (ie: know what content is being uploaded or downloaded) without doing an MITM, as they use a simple key exchange to prevent passive snooping, but you can see plenty of metadata, ports, protocol handshakes, etc to identify the protocol as a bittorrent protocol.

rakoo 11y ago
> While most Bittorrent traffic uses encryption Just to be clear: there is an extension to make bittorrent use "encryption" (http://wiki.vuze.com/w/Message_Stream_Encryption http://wiki.vuze.com/w/Message_Stream_Encryption), but while it does use crypto primitives its design make it closer to an "obfuscation" scheme than a real "encryption" scheme. In the words of the author himself (https://torrentfreak.com/interview-with-bram-cohen-the-inventor-of-bittorrent/ https://torrentfreak.com/interview-with-bram-cohen-the-inven...): > The so-called ‘encryption’ of BitTorrent traffic isn’t really encryption, it’s obfuscation. It provides no anonymity whatsoever, and only temporarily evades traffic shaping.