> At some point you need secure hashes or macs (which are hashes secured with keys). Which is not encryption, but signing :) I totally agree with that though.

> At some point you need secure hashes or macs (which are hashes secured with keys). Which is not encryption, but signing :) I totally agree with that though. And of course there's a BEP for that (http://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0035.html http://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0035.html).