Re: preventing unauthorized bittorrent peers?

Mike Ravkine <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.bit-torrent.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
There's a few torrent sites that use a web login-based protection scheme.

The server makes the user authenticate via HTTP or some other scheme, 
then generates a token for a user's session and request, encoding it an 
announce URL of the form 
http://hostname:80/tracker/Ipybe1vH1zbS/announce.  This allows for a 
transition of state from the authenticated web session into a tracker 
communication session, if implemented correctly.

--kRYPT

David Wilburn wrote:

>I have a funny security question regarding the bittorrent protocol that 
>I hope you will answer.
>[snip]...
>  
>




 
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