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Dammit. I downloaded this and was excited to make it my primary tool, but thanks for this. I know next to nothing about cryptography and experts weighing in help people like my avoid getting dupped.

Thanks for the post OP.



The question is, is it less secure than current offerings (Transmission, uTorrent, qbittorrent…)?


It gives a false sense of security at best. The crypto is broken at a basic level, trivially allowing things like key recovery, denial of service, block copy-pasting...

However, about BitTorrent crypto: `In an interview in 2007, Cohen stated "The so-called ‘encryption’ of BitTorrent traffic isn’t really encryption, it’s obfuscation. It provides no anonymity whatsoever, and only temporarily evades traffic shaping.` [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent_protocol_encryption...


Has anyone compared Tribler and OneSwarm recently?


It creates a number of attack surfaces that will surely be exploited. The absence of RELAY_EARLY is a good example.




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