Re:I Know What You Download on BitTorrent
by loeg on Monday July 13, 2020 @05:02PM
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The protocol is more or less all plaintext. The "best" peer to peer cipher available is rc4; almost no one uses it. The tracker announces can run over HTTPS, but often run over plain HTTP.
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Re:I Know What You Download on BitTorrent
by userbinator on Monday July 13, 2020 @07:44PM
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The "best" peer to peer cipher available is rc4; almost no one uses it.
...which is unfortunate because even something like the anonymous DH that is specified, or more standard, TLS with random/self-signed certificates, would force monitors to need to MITM all connections in order to find out what they contain.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent_protocol_encryption