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In the P2P method of command and control the bot only tends to know a list of peers of which it can send commands to and that are passed on to other peers further down the botnet. The list tends to be around 256 peers which allows it to be small enough for it to allow commands to be quickly passed on to other peers and makes it harder to disrupt the operation of the botnet while allowing it to remain online if major numbers of peers are taken down in a takedown effort.

==Systems Usedused for Command and Control==

{{Unreferenced section|date=March 2016}}There have been different ways Command and Control (C&C) have been implemented.

Here are some of the common and well known types of C&C listed.

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===P2P as C&C===

Peer -to Peer-peer botnets with Command and Control based on Peer peer-to Peer-peer technology have been more less recent in the threat landscape.

Since most of the time IRC networks and Domainsdomains can be taken down with time, hackers have moved on to P2P as a way to make it harder to be taken down.

Some have even been known to use encryption as a way to secure or lock down the botnet from others, most of the time when they use encryption it is Public[[public-Keykey encryptioncryptography]] and has presented challenges in both implementing it and breaking it.

==See also==