What does Encrypting Bit Torrents Do?
Encrypting Bit Torrents are designed to prevent ISP's from shaping or slowing down your download speed if they detect this. To help prevent this from happening, ISP's are using tools to detect BitTorrent download thereby shaping or slowing down your connection. It does not prevent prying eyes logging your details for litigation purposes
How To Encrypt BitTorrent?
Azureus
- Go to: Tools > Options > Connection > Transport Encryption
- Check the ‘require encrypted transport’ box.
- Choose RC4 in the ‘minimum encryption’ dropdown box
note that RC4 uses more CPU time than the plain encryption or no encryption. It is however harder to identify for traffic shaping devices
- You can choose to tick the ‘Allow non-encrypted outgoing connections if encrypted connection attempt fails’ box. This will ensure compatibility with clients that are not using encryption. However, it makes it easier for your ISP to detect BitTorrent traffic. I recommend that you try to tick this box first. If you are still not getting proper speeds untick it
- Tick the ‘Allow non-encrypted incoming connections’ box
Bitcomet
- Go to: Options > Preferences > Advanced > Connection
- Go to: ‘Protocol encryption’ You can choose between ‘auto detect’ and ‘always’. Auto detect will give you more connections but offers less protection against traffic shapers.
I would recommend to try auto detect first, if that doesn’t increase your speeds you need to switch to always
uTorrent
- Go to: Options > Preferences > BitTorrent
- Go to ‘Protocol encryption’, you can choose between ‘enabled’ and ‘forced’. ‘Enabled’ will give you more connections but offers less protection against traffic shapers.
I would recommend to try ‘enabled’ first, if that doesn’t increase your speeds you need to swich to ‘forced’.
- Ticking ‘Allow legacy incoming connections’ allows non ecrypted clients to connect to you. This improves compatibility between clients but makes you more vulnerable to traffic shapers.
I would recommend to tick this box, but if that doesn’t increase your speeds, untick it!
Conclusion
there are many more BitTorrent downloading tools available, however be sure to research you software selection to make sure it has encryption facilities.
Similar Reading
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Referencing
Torrent Freak - Retrieved on 1 July 2008
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