Due to the fact that the various bit torrent client software have to rely on ports and IP addresses to make connections, this creates a large security vulnerability for most people. Too often, rather than creating the exceptions for their bit torrent client software in their firewall, people will actually disable their firewall prevention. When [...]

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One of the most important parts of the bit torrent network is obviously the trackers, cause without them, there would be no bit torrents. However, over the last couple of years, much change has occurred to the bit torrent client software, one of these changes is the DHT, or the ability to download a file [...]

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Client side implementation of the bit torrent client is rather straight forward in 99.9% of the situations. You are basically going to a website where you can download a bit torrent client, download and install it and that’s it. However, there are some issues that may come up when dealing with the client side implementation [...]

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The Similarity-Enhanced Transfer was developed to help speed up the transfer process between nodes in the file sharing network. The way it works, is it looks for chunks of data that are exact or an almost exact copy of what the client application is looking for. This technique is known as hand printing and it [...]

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