This is all about how to download/upload encrypted torrents.

OK…

I’ll try keep this simple, but comment if you have

problems.  Sorry

it’s so long, I tried to keep it detailed – if you read

the whole thing

first you will see it is reasonably straight forward.

You need to download a program called uTorrent from .  This allows you to download torrent files.

(Detail: torrent files

contain a list of

trackers/computers for the associated file you are

trying to download.  For

example you download an Ubuntu torrent; you

use uTorrent to open the downloaded Ubuntu torrent file,

uTorrent reads

the file and connects to the tracker sites, this in turn

connects to

hundreds of people with the file and downloads bits from

everyone –

reducing bandwidth costs to any one user and speeding up the download.)

Before you download any ,

open

uTorrent and choose Options – Preferences, then in the pop-up

window go

to the bittorrent screen.  From the protocol encryption

section choose

Forced in the outgoing option and uncheck ‘Allow

incoming legacy

connections’ – this means your downloads are encrypted

in both

directions (outgoing and incoming):

When your downloads

are encrypted this means your ISP (internet

service provider) cannot

tell what you are downloading or uploading

(sharing) but only that you

are using .

When

your torrent has finished (100% complete in uTorrent) you should

right-click on it within uTorrent and select remove torrent,

this means

you keep the data you downloaded, you just don’t share it

anymore –

less likely for you internet provider canceling your service

due to

bandwidth usage, due to constant sharing.

You can also set up

rules to stop seeding (sharing) once you have

reached 100% which decreases your

upload and visibility using .  By going to scheduling, the following screen shows seeding till 150% (downloaded the file, and shared it back 1.5x):

Now there are several sites out there where you can download torrent files –

.

Two reasons, it’s good, and the https means it is encrypted, so ISP

doesn’t know what you are clicking on really. I don’t think???

Couple of things to note about :

So I should probably mention, using

you can download almost anything; music, movies, tv shows, and

software.  Say you download a movie or tv show, to watch it on your PC

you should use a program called VLC – it’s free and will pretty

much

play any filetype/codec.

Hope you can understand this, and it helps!

Downloading Copyrighted material is illegal.

The following site will provide free SSL certificate, these can be used for securing a connection – but should not be considered ‘trusted’, as only the domain name and email are validated.

This looks like it would probably minimize the hassle in creating your own self-signed certificates.

I created my own self-signed certificate using OpenSSL (), I don’t remember the exact steps – and I wish I wrote them here, I thought I did???  The site will no doubt have all the information you need.

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