BitTorrent Developers Introduce Comcast Busting Encryption

["Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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Via TorrentFreak.

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BitTorrent throttling is not a new phenomenon, ISPs have been doing it for
years. When the first ISPs started to throttle BitTorrent traffic most
BitTorrent clients introduced a countermeasure, namely, protocol header
encryption. This was the beginning of an ongoing cat and mouse game between
ISPs and BitTorrent client developers, which is about to enter new level.

Unfortunately, protocol header encryption doesn’t help against more
aggressive forms of BitTorrent interference, like the Sandvine application
used by Comcast. A new extension to the BitTorrent protocol is needed to
stay ahead of the ISPs, and that is exactly what is happening right now.


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More:
http://torrentfreak.com/bittorrent-devs-introduce-comcast-busting-encryptio
n-080215/

- - ferg


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"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg(at)netzero.net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/


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