BitTornado 0.3.18 Final

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BitTornado is a very basic BitTorrent client. It is the successor of Shad0w's Experimental Client, and is programmed by the same person. The interface resembles the original BitTorrent clients, but with added features such as:

• Upload/download speed limitation
• Prioritized downloading when downloading batches (several files)
• Detailed information about connections to other peers

It is programmed using Python, for platform independence.

BitTornado supports both header-only and full-stream encryption, though header-only is only supported in one of BitTornado's four encryption modes.

These modes are:

1. No encryption permitted. The client won't make any encrypted connections.

2. Encryption enabled (default). The client will accept incoming encrypted connections, and will make outgoing encrypted connections if the tracker tells it that peer requires it (and if the tracker has the extensions to do so). In this mode, the client will recognize header-only encryption.

3. Encrypted connections only. This restricts the client to only connecting via encrpted links, and only via full stream encryption. This may drastically affect the ability of the client to connect to peers with a tracker that doesn't support the crypto extensions.

4. Full stealth encryption. Like the above mode, except it also modifies tracker communications so that (assuming peers are coded properly) the client will never receive any unencrypted incoming connection attempts. If the tracker doesn't support the crypto extensions, this will also effectively firewall the client.

New in BitTornado 0.3.18:

• Encryption now available
• Security added to prevent clients from exploiting super-seed (bad BitComet!)

Outstanding issues:

• Still no fast protocol
• Still no GUI