SSL Encryption Coming To The Pirate Bay

An anonymous reader writes "The Pirate Bay, in response to Sweden's new wiretapping law, will start offering SSL encryption to its user base this week. Although copyright issues really have little to do with national security, The Pirate Bay knows its population is uneasy with the recent legal change. The encryption will mostly benefit Swedish users living under the current law. Since The Pirate Bay and its servers are not hosted in Sweden, the additional security offered to outside users could be comparatively minimal."

Comments

Re:speed

[ozamosi]

The actual file transfers are peer-to-peer, so they won't be effected (also, they're usually encrypted already, to avoid bandwidth throttling). This is for accessing the website and/or for contacting the tracker.

Web pages have been using SSL for years without being especially slow.

Contacting a tracker is a lightweight request that is being performed once every 30 minutes or so - if it was a few seconds slower, nobody'd notice anyway.

Re:speed

[just_a_monkey]

There are pros and cons to living in Sweden. This law is a big con. So are the taxes, and the regulations. A penal system which is not based on homosexual rape is a pro, though.