When the encryption mode is set to: require encryption ... does this mean the data packets are fully encrypted (headers and payload - full stream encryption) or does this mean that it's only encrypting the headers only of the data packet?
Only the header. This will not protect you regarding illegal content and is more historical: back in the past some ISP applied throttling on such headers and this was the workaround. Not really useful nowadays
Only the header. This will not protect you regarding illegal content and is more historical: back in the past some ISP applied throttling on such headers and this was the workaround. Not really useful nowadays
Thanks for that informative reply!
Not sure if there's any scope for qBittorent to get full stream encryption in the future? Anyone know of any torrent clients that is 64bit, that provides full stream encryption (header + payload encryption) and works on OSX?
With the protection of your IP or identity in mind such won't help. You're not caught during the transfer but by advertising the content you can share.
The swarm is the common reference to the pool of available peers, and as you try to seed you're connectable. And the advertised IP will be the one of you modem, you public IP. The VPN/Proxy are the only options hiding your public IP
