Friday, March 11, 2005

Anonymous, Encrypted P2P Anyone?

BitTorrent 4.0 was released the other day (and is flying off the virtual shelves as it were) but I haven't touched BitTorrent for ages now as I don't fancy handing all my worldly possessions over to the MPAA or becoming somebody's cellbitch. It's well known that various bodies are monitoring BitTorrent traffic, identifying people sharing mp3s/films, noting their ip addresses and suing them.

Well there's a new P2P network called ANts P2P to try which promises:
ANts P2P realizes a third generation P2P net. It protects your privacy while you are connected and makes you not trackable, hiding your identity (ip) and crypting everything you are sending/receiving from others.

Sounds good to me. I don't know how secure this is as I've only just found this but this weekend I'll be giving this ago (and watching Spurs get beat 6-1 naturally) so may know a little more by next week.

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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

There are some other anonymous bitrorrent options, you can use TOR or i2p to make bittorrent anonymous. Some how tos are here:

Anonymous Bittorrent with TOR:

http://www.gotroot.com/tiki-index.php?page=Anonymous+Bittorrent+with+TOR

Anonymous Bittorrent with i2p:

http://www.gotroot.com/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=195

mmChronic said...

Thanks for that - I've posted about it here.