torrentfreak.com — Ipoque, a German based company that specializes in developing bandwidth managing solutions for Universities and ISPs, announced today that their products are now able to detect and throttle encrypted BitTorrent traffic.
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abaddono1Apr 28, 2007
the title is inaccurate, the encryption is not cracked, it just identifiable. there is a huge difference.buried as inacurate.
orangeryApr 28, 2007
f**king idiot they haven't cracked it
cynicistApr 28, 2007
Actually BitComet used a private PHE (protocol header encryption) method (until v0.63) which was incompatible with other clients. Azureus devs created MSE (message stream encryption) which has since been adopted by the majority of bittorrent clients. (Mainline, Ktorrent, BitTornado, Azureus, BitComet, uTorrent) source: wikipediaAnd this article is worthless. Bittorrent traffic is very bandwidth intensive, and not difficult to detect. Is anyone else tired of sensationalist headlines? Everything has to be hacked/cracked/exploded or its not newsworthy these days.
antychApr 28, 2007
IncaccurateMy ISP is able to detect and cap BT traffic for months already.And it is accurate, I can see this on my usage graphs.AFAIK they use ellacoya systems to do that.
generalloyApr 28, 2007
"Bittorent's current encryption system (RC4) is purposely not very strong, but they left a _lot_ of room to expand the encryption protocol if it ever came to that (which it still hasn't, even with this statistical filter being announced)."I filed a bug on the Azureus bug tracker and they said they're happy with the encryption they have (this was when Rogers was throttling encrypted Bittorent traffic). Hopefully they've changed their minds...
bhaviApr 28, 2007
FBI doesn't give a s**t. Your note should be addressed to Jack Thompson!
mrpaularApr 28, 2007
Sandvine (another similar company) has been able to do this for months....
kianavclAug 14, 2008
... This again ?First of all, I really don't understand why network throttling is even legal !! Why should my ISP be abel to steal my bandwidth away for any reason ? I'm still paying for it in advance.Secondly, what I do with BitTorrent or any other internet service is my responsibility. It's not like using protocol encryption means I'm pirating stuff... What it means is that "I don't want my bandwidth to be throttled, dammit !!"And even then, who cares if some encryption protocol is cracked ? We're not network security experts discussing the technical details... There are still tons of other ways to detect BitTorrent traffic and slow it down to a crawl, oh I'm sorry, "throttle" it !