Can we turn ON encryption in Transmission?

[Edgars Šmits]

Gilles:

Thanks for the reply. I saw that on the Transmission site, but what
didn't make sense to me is that when I looked at the details for a
torrent download in Transmission just before I emailed the list I had
6 or 7 peers with a lock next to their streams, and nothing was coming
in, and when you held the mouse over the peer it said "We would
download from this connection if they would let us, encrypted
connection"

I just checked again, and I now have 5 "locked" peers, all downloading
to me, and the details says they are encrypted. I also have 2 locked
peers with nothing coming in, and the details says as above - "if they
would let us".

It looks Transmission does have encryption always turned on.


Cheers, another mystery solved


ED


On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Gilles Gravier <gilles at gravier.org> wrote:
> Hi, Edgars!
>
> Edgars Šmits wrote:
>> I know we can set it to "ignore unencrypted peers", but I just noticed
>> that I have many locked peers while downloading and the message says
>> that they are ignoring me because I'm not encrypted. Does Transmission
>> 1.34 that came with Intrepid have an enable encryption setting?
>>
>> I've looked through various Ubuntu sites and other places on the web,
>> no where is this spelled out. If it can't be done, can anyone point me
>> to an altenative bittorrent client (other than Azureus) that does
>> support this?
>>
> Don't look at Ubuntu sites... look at Transmission site. The
> Transmission manual on line states :
>
> "Transmission encrypts the connections it makes with other peers when
> necessary, using the RC4 cipher. The implementation is compatible with
> other clients such as Azureus and µTorrent. It is always enabled,
> however you can set Transmission (Preferences >> Options) to only accept
> encrypted peers.
>
> Note that selecting this option may make Transmission unconnectable in
> some swarms. The encryption feature does not mean your session is secure
> or anonymous, it is merely a way to avoid the traffic shaping measures
> some ISPs have implemented."
>
> This is from this page :
> http://www.transmissionbt.com/help/gtk/1.3x/html/preferences.html
>
> So... encryption is always on... it will always accept and try to use
> encryption.The setting you have is to FORBID non encrypted peers... but
> maybe the site you talk to is running an older non standard client that
> doesn't do RC4 crypto.
>
> Gilles.