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Well BitTorrent's own project Bleep uses the Bittorrent network as well. Their protocol is more complex however. Their goals are to hide who is talking who, fr
by danoctavian 11y ago
Well BitTorrent's own project Bleep uses the Bittorrent network as well.
Their protocol is more complex however. Their goals are to hide who is talking who, from entities that might just be scraping the DHT. With bluntly, you can tell who is talking to who, by looking at what peers advertised on the rendezvous node.
Because they have control over the bittorrent protocol, they can go ahead and make changes to it that make NAT penetration easier (a 3rd party peer with a public address acts as a facilitator for putting 2 peers behind NAT in contact) or they can allow for arbitrary data to be stored in the DHT.