Encrypting Bittorrent to take out traffic shapers

Over the past months more Bittorrent users noticed that their ISP is killing all Bittorrent traffic . ISP’s like Rogers are using bit-shaping applications to throttle the traffic that is generated by Bittorrent.

But, at the same time two of the most popular Bittorrent clients are working together to implement header and message stream encryption in order to take out these traffic shapers.

Currently both Azureus and µTorrent included this new form of encryption (specs) in their latest Beta’s. The fact that these two clients are actively working together to implement this new feature is promising and will make this form of encryption the new standard since the users of these two clients cover the majority of all Bittorrent users.