BitTorrent protocol encryption: Difference between revisions

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==Why==

Some [[Internet service provider|ISP]]s throttle BitTorrent traffic because it makes up a large proportion of total traffic and the ISPsthey don't want to spend money buying extra capacity. Instead, the ISPs spend money on hardware that looklooks for BitTorrent traffic and slowslows them down. Encryption makes BitTorrent traffic harder to detect and therefore harder to throttle. It is not designed to provide [[anonymity]].

==History==