All Users: Please Enable Encryption!

[turin]

already done :-)

[nccforum]

uTorrent 1.8.3 enabled ^_^

[durrigible]

I always wondered if enabling encryption on my downloads was smart or not. I turned it on just the other day after looking at a different guide on here. I love the screenshots with highlighted points of interest in the original post / guide here.

[anon]

Enabling it should be fine. Forcing it is a different deal.

[slaughterads]

enable is NOT sufficient:

REQUIRED is necessary


forced encryption, no legacy incoming

[anon]

REQUIRED is necessary

forced encryption, no legacy incoming

That will force encryption, even when unnecessary, and will reject all unencrypted connections (which as most modern clients support PE, isn't a big deal). In my opinion, "enabled" is the optimal setting - connections won't be encrypted unless a peer particularly requests so.

[QPD]

I use enabled option!

[frenchyd]

I have found that enabling protocol encryption makes no difference to my ISP traffic shaping, I still get throttled heavily during peak times with it enabled, maybe my ISP has wised up to this and knows how to identify the encrypted packets? I can beat the traffic shaping by tunneling through a free VPN service though I still dont get my full bandwidth with this method. Still its better than 10 - 15 KBps they give whilst im being throttled. Anyone else had this problem?

[anon]

Most of the time, Protocol Encryption only covers the header using a low-grade cypher. The idea isn't preventing others from seeing what you're downloading, only fooling shapers. And eventually the companies that manufacture those found a way to detect BitTorrent traffic, encryption or not. Your best bets are uTorrent set to use uTP only, or Azureus with forced RC4 and no fallbacks.

[amazin]

i have been using utorrent 2.0 with utp, and have found that it works a lot better then tcp with encryption!