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BitTorrent Devs Introduce Comcast-Proof Encryption

Submitted by MacRonin on February 18, 2008 - 2:43pm
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BitTorrent Devs Introduce Comcast-Proof Encryption - Via Slashdot: Your Rights Online:

Dean Garfield writes "An article at TorrentFreak notes that several BitTorrent developers have proposed a new protocol extension with the ability to bypass the BitTorrent interfering techniques used by Comcast and other ISPs. 'This new form of encryption will be implemented in BitTorrent clients including uTorrent, so Comcast subscribers are free to share again. The goal of this new type of encryption (or obfuscation) is to prevent ISPs from blocking or disrupting BitTorrent traffic connections that span between the receiver of a tracker response and any peer IP-port appearing in that tracker response, according to the proposal.'"

(Read Original Article - Via Slashdot: Your Rights Online.)

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