distro: opensuse linux 11.4


not sure how to configure stunnel for vuze or any torrent client. can't find that info with google. been reading the documentation but not sure if it's even possible now.

i'm wondering if any of use has done that. if so, please post how you did it. thnx in advance.

Based on what I know about how bittorrent works this does not seem possible. I use stunnel to connect to my Usenet provider. However, that is a connection from my PC to a single destination. I suppose you could connect from your PC to another bittorrent peer by ssl but I do not think the whole swarm could connect to one another by ssl. That would require each peer to be running an ssl service and a lot of certificate exchange.

However, I may well be wrong and I will have to follow this thread and see if an answer is forthcoming. It would be very neat to access torrents securely.

Ken

I'll join taylorkh in that I'm not sure this would be possible. Since I think that in that case every client would need to implement SSL, or run the ssl proxy. Not feasible.

The best I know of that comes close to your requirements is bittorrent encryption. Most known clients should support this (KTorrent, rtorrent and µtorrent do...). Not sure how it works internally, but a basic description is on wikipedia

Serafean

i think you guys are right.
thnx for confirming that it may not be possible to stunnel bittorrent clients.

as the last poster mentioned, a possibility would be to play around with the settings of your client to see if encryption is supported. good enough i guess.

thnx again!