Company Cracks BitTorrent Protocol Encryption and Introduces Tracker Whitelists

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by Ernesto

The BitTorrent bandwidth battle continues. 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. In addition, they introduce the option to maintain a “whitelist” of legal BitTorrent trackers that are allowed on the monitored network. You could call it the PeerGuardian for ISPs.

Last year uTorrent and Azureus, two of the most popular BitTorrent clients implemented BitTorrent protocol encryption. This successfully bypassed most traffic shaping devices that were used to slow down BitTorrent traffic. The topic led to a heated discussion, and the BitTorrent bandwidth battle took off.

In a response to the BitTorrent protocol encryption that is now supported by many BitTorrent clients, companies like Ipoque that provide bandwidth management hardware, claim that they found a way to detect and block these encrypted (obfuscated) transfers. Ipoque doesn’t provide any details on how they are able to detect encrypted BitTorrent traffic, and it is doubtful whether they can be sure that the traffic they block is indeed generated by BitTorrent.

In addition to the ability to throttle encrypted BitTorrent transfers, Ipoque’s bandwidth managing devices now also support the use of BitTorrent tracker whitelists. “Desired legal trackers such as tracker.opensuse.org can be registered in a whitelist so that their BitTorrent traffic is accepted. All other BitTorrent traffic can be blocked.”, says Ipoque in a press release.

Lately, more and more companies claim that they have found a way to detect encrypted BitTorrent traffic. The fact is however that none of these companies actually provides data on the effectiveness of these systems. Until they open up their methods I seriously doubt the effectiveness of these devices.

Interestingly, a few weeks ago, Canadian ISP Rogers even decided to throttle all encrypted traffic (not only BitTorrent). Apparently Rogers doesn’t need a device that is able to detect encrypted BitTorrent traffic on their network, they simply throttle everyone who is using encrypted transfers.

The cat-and-mouse game continues.

Source: Torrent Freak

[masterripper]

Damn, seriously they should just give up, The RIAA, MPAA, And George W Bush are the 3 stupidiest people on earth, GWB is just plain old stupid and should be killed or atleast have a heart attack or something that will kill him, and the MPAA & RIAA actually think that at some point in history they magically will actually rid the world of all piracy and bittorrent transfers and p2p users etc.., HA, i laugh in their face, stupid asses, and then these dumbasses, (like Ipoque) think that by trying out magical new techniques they are gonna help the riaa, mpaa and similar organizations catch pirates, LOL thats too funny, all they are doing is pissing off their customers that are using a particular companies isp service, look at Rogers over in canada, theyve blocked bittorent transefers and now ppl are switching to another isp, anyways im getting tired of this kind of shit happening every other day, it doesnt scare me, it just annoys me and makes me want to pirate even more content, they wish they could win this war, but it aint ever gonna happen, pirates will always prevail over ninjas, as a matter of a fact, just for reading this thread about trying to catch/stop/end pirates, im gonna pirate at least 5 albums and 3 movies, try and catch me, lol, suck on that bitches. End of rant.......

[dMog]

hey...about stupid people....we just have to live with them....forgive them too for being stupid...look at it this way ...suppose you having an argument with someone and finally they look at you and say "what are you?...stupid?" you just say yes...what more can they say to you ...end of argument...you win :wacko: or :D

[Xianuro]

When ISPs will understand that nobody wants Megabits of speed to browse HTML pages...