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Re:Bitmagnet: A self-hosted BitTorrent indexer, DHT crawler,... by no_time on Thursday October 05, 2023 @02:48PM (#37782469)
Encryption without authentication in this case is as good as XORing all outgoing data with a fixed key. So basically useless...
Re:Bitmagnet: A self-hosted BitTorrent indexer, DHT crawler,... by colinsane on Thursday October 05, 2023 @03:45PM (#37783352)
yes, exactly. BitTorrent supports encryption. swapping it out for some other encryption mechanism won't change anything when it comes to government policing because that's already not where the weaknesses lie for those sharing p2p content today. so what was GP's point?