Thread: Gnutella SSL?
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Old March 21st, 2003
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SSL doesn't achieve much because the network remains fully searchable for the copyright owners. SSL will encrypt the connections, so somebody eavesdropping on your internet traffic from a local network cannot analyze your traffic.

Analyzing your traffic when it is sent as is, is only possible for your provider and the provider of the remote host (and people from your and the remote host's LANs) - but that would be illegal anyway.

Copyright owners use the gnutella network to search files and maybe try to download them to verify they are really there to find people sharing copyrighted works - SSL won't change that.

Filetopia's security is pure hype, by the way. - The only network that comes even close to being secure is Freenet (and a few related projects).
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