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Originally Posted by SOSAGES
i am no expert in traffic shaping, essentially it involves your ISP identifying and blocking traffic from popular p2p applications (Bit Torrent/Emule/etc). While there are not that many isps that do this right now, expect more and more ISPs to implement traffic shaping (as new CISCO hardware has P2P throttling built in standard) It has been widely reported that most ISPs in Italy have implemented traffic shaping, and a major service provider in Canada uses a particularly brutal brand. Often there is no alternative service providers to turn to because of monopolisation of the market.
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Heh 'not many' o rly
You've been able to do P2P throttling with Ciscos for a while using the NBAR features. Nothing brand new there. Most people prefer to use the Ellacoya / Packeteer / Sandvine / Allot / PCube gear though for more granularity of control and because it takes its' toll on the routers asking them to look deep into packets.
The big 3 cable operators in Canada all shape, Plusnet here shape immensely, Pipex do a bit of shaping, as do BT.
No doubt there are others that we don't know about because they're more subtle
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Originally Posted by Stuart C
Not sure encryption will be very handy. Either only a few people will have each key, which will reduce the number of downloads available (thus slowing the download speed), or lots of P2P users will have the same key, and the ISPs may well spot a pattern, and just slow down any packets conforming to that pattern.
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Suggest you check out Diffie-Hellman key exchange, TKIP, and asymettrical cryptography
The only way to stop a reasonably implemented encryption scheme is to use session / connection based throttling. There aren't exactly many applications that open as many connections as quickly as a P2P program