March 2nd, 2004
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 | lazy dragon - retired mod | | Join Date: October 14th, 2001 Location: Germany
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 Re: Encrypting P2P traffic (ssl?)
Quote: Originally posted by Drizzit
1. Is it possible to encrypt the data transferred with a P2P client? | Yes, of course. Quote: |
2. In the future is there going to be an encryption feature added to the gnutella?
| No. The problem is that the key can only be shared between closed source clients, many Gnutella clients are open source like Limewire.
Btw encryption is no protection against the RIAA, they just need one client and see what you download. Quote: |
As a last note I am also very sad to hear that universities (which should be the source of new innovations) are blocking P2P traffic.
| Bandwidth is expensive, unversities have no flat like private users they pay for the traffic!
Morgwen |
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