Protocol Encryption
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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. PE is not the same as PEX, which is Peer Exchange!
The following clients support PE
- uTorrent
- rTorrent
- kTorrent
- Mainline (Incoming only)
Instructions on configuring these clients to utilize PE can be found below.
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uTorrent
You can choose Protocol Encryption's mode of operation in BitTorrent. Here is an explanation of the various options you can choose from:
- Disabled: Does not encrypt outgoing connections, but will accept encrypted incoming connections.
- Enabled: Attempts to encrypt outgoing connections, but will fall back to an unencrypted mode if the connection fails.
- Force: Attempts to encrypt outgoing connections, and will NOT fall back to an unencrypted mode if the connection fails.
- Allow legacy incoming connections enables or disables incoming legacy (non-encrypted) connections.
All modes will accept incoming encrypted connections (and the encryption is 2-way)!
It is not recommended to turn off "Allow legacy incoming connections", unless you cannot have any non-encrypted connections (typically in conjunction with Forced).
