mafintosh/torrent-stream

Implement Protocol Encryption (PE/MSE)

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#55 opened on May 30, 2014

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torrent-stream will likely want this too, though I'm guessing at a fairly low priority. Adding a link to https://github.com/feross/webtorrent/issues/69 in order to track progress across torrent-stream and bittorrent-client. See the webtorrent issue for a thorough breakdown.

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Research direction
Study the BitTorrent Message Stream Encryption (MSE) specification and existing implementations like libtorrent. Identify where to integrate encryption handshake in torrent stream's connection lifecycle.
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javascript
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backend
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