BitTorrent protocol encryption: Difference between revisions

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'''Protocol header encrypt''' ('''PHE'''){{ref|name}}, '''Message stream encryption''' ('''MSE'''), or '''Protocol encryption''' ('''PE''') are features of some [[BitTorrent]] clients that attempt to make BitTorrent hard to throttle. MSE and PE are two names for the same protocol.
==Why==
Some [[Internet service provider|ISP]]s throttle BitTorrent traffic because it makes up a large proportion of total traffic and the ISPs don't want to spend money buying extra capacity. Instead, the ISPs spend money on hardware that look for BitTorrent traffic and slow them down. Encryption makes BitTorrent traffic harder to detect and terefore harder to throttle.

==History==