What extensions are important/mandatory for a modern bittorrent client? about webtorrent HOT 6 CLOSED

Looking at what other clients support, I think we should support:

• encryption
• peer exchange protocol (PEX)
• µTP
• UPnP and NAT-PMP port forwarding
• webseed support

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By encryption you mean the data encryption , if yes then it will be great.

I think anonymising the user is heavily required looking at how the snooping is being done everywhere.
I'm really looking forward to an elegant way of hiding the user identity , which I think nobody has provided in the torrent client till now .

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Yes, I'm referring to BitTorrent protocol encryption. Anonymizing the user is another issue completely, and much harder.

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And then I thought people at Stanford can do anything..Must be harder..;)

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Mutable torrent support would be really good. Here's a BEP39, although I'd prefer an implementation that let torrent clients push a new torrent file iff it's an updated version.

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I added individual issues tracking each of these extensions.

• PEX #65
• Web (HTTP) seeding #67
• µTP #68
• Encryption (PE/MSE) #69

Note that I couldn't find any substantive background info on bittorrent UPnP, so I left that one off for now. @feross I think this issue should be closed as answered and further progress should be tracked in these sub issues.

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