<html><head><style>body{font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px}</style></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color: rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;">On 23 October 2014 at 3:56:00 pm, Stephen Worthington (<a href="mailto:stephen_agent@jsw.gen.nz">stephen_agent@jsw.gen.nz</a>) wrote:</div> <div><blockquote type="cite" class="clean_bq" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span><div><div></div><div><br>Bittorrent protocol is *not* anonymous. The IP addresses of anyone<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>connected via Bittorrent are easy to see in your Bittorrent software,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>unless you also use an anonymising service such as a torrent proxy or<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>an anonymising VPN connection. However, Bittorrent Sync encrypts the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>data, so only people with the encryption key can see what data is<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>being shared. I believe it would be possible for anyone to join a<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>torrent and get a copy of the data being shared, but that copy would<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>be useless without the key and they would not know what data they had.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>But all it would take would be for one person to give away the key,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>and then any copies of the data would be able to be decrypted.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>Somehow, I do not think the key would remain secret forever.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div></div></span></blockquote></div><p>There are Private Trackers for doing such things as well: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent_tracker#Private_trackers">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent_tracker#Private_trackers</a></p><p><br></p></body></html>