[wpkg-users] wpkg software deployment using bittorrent

[Rob Bos]

If anyone on list has input on how to secure a torrent swarm (prevent 
someone in China from downloading) that I haven't covered, that'd be 
appreciated. I'm not aware of any way to connect to a swarm without the 
.torrent file, but the firewall rules and disabling DHT should help. If 
I'm doing something stupid, then I want to know about it.

On 13-07-11 04:46 PM, Rob Bos wrote:
> On 13-07-10 01:32 PM, Carlos R. Pasqualini wrote:
>> the use of '--bt-exclude-tracker=*' and later using your own tracker 
>> is for the client to not search for the torrent on the public 
>> internet? j
>
> I've been using firewall rules restricted to our valid IP ranges to 
> prevent people connecting to our tracker, and disabling DHT, which 
> should prevent people without the torrent downloading any of the data 
> from the swarm on a given campus.
>
> The risk is similar to a plain-text copy over CIFS; people could sniff 
> the traffic either way. If anything, torrent makes that harder by 
> mixing up the pieces nonlinearly.
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