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Encrypted Fileserver with Bittorrent Web Interface

Posted by timothy on from the freenetesque dept.

mistermark writes "I built a fully encrypted (samba) fileserver with a web interface for managing torrent downloads on it. All I used is OpenBSD 3.6 and its package collection, except for the TorrentFlux-interface (which you need to install separately). Anyway, it can be built using binary packages only. I included a rough HOWTO on how to make one of these yourself."

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  1. why? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Pertend I'm stupid, why would I want this?

    1. Re:why? by caluml · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Yeah, I can't work this out either. The problem with torrents is not storing them safely, or downloading them safely. It's that when you start downloading a file using torrents, your IP address is known by the tracker which gives away the fact you're a downloader.
      Sure, store them on an AES-256 encrypted filesystem, sure, use SSL for the transfer. But it doesn't help the fact that the downloaders/uploaders are known.

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  2. Re:Piracy how-tos? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ummm, are you a moron? Just because it says "torrent" does NOT mean piracy. There are many legitimate uses for bittorrent and many legitimate reason to want to encrypt files....put them together and what do you get? RTFA next time you fucking mpaa monkey.

  3. Re:Piracy how-tos? by Rakshasa+Taisab · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Much is illegal and depending on your ethical belifs much more may be immoral. But do not assume one is a superset/subset of the other. Most you can propably say about it is that they intersect.

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  4. Defeats the purpose... by Doodhwala · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So, what exactly does this accomplish? When you use Bittorrent, the protocol both downloads and uploads data at the same time (look up the tit-for-tat policy followed by BT to ensure fairness). If you were in the US, all the RIAA needs to do to sue you is download a single chunk of data from you. They don't need to break your door down and cart the computer away. So, the encryption is moot anyway.

  5. Re:Be very, very careful when using EFS!!! by Universal+Indicator · · Score: 5, Insightful

    11 years of research without a single backup? Sounds like the person was asking for it!

  6. Re:Be very, very careful when using EFS!!! by LnxAddct · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Perhaps he was encrypting his backups because of the nature of the research.
    Regards,
    Steve