Toby DiPasquale on 21 Oct 2007 14:59:44 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] Comcast spoofs on network to block P2P


On Sun, Oct 21, 2007 at 05:27:10PM +0900, kamiza103@yahoo.co.jp wrote:
> This might be useful:
> 
> Protocol Encryption (PE) is a joint specification between Azureus and µTorrent. It is designed to bypass throttling and/or blocking of BitTorrent traffic by an ISP.
> 
> http://utorrent.com/faq.php#Does_.C2B5Torrent_support_Protocol_Encryption.3F

Sandvine, the thing Comcast is using, is idempotent to that. Comcast is
not attempting to mangle the traffic but rather to just plain stem it. PE
affords no protection against bidirectional RST generation.

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Toby DiPasquale
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