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p2pnet news | Freedom:- | P2P:- “Thanks in no small part to the work of Spike, we are proud to offer SSL on 2 of our sites,” says isoHunt.
As well as being one of isoHunt’s longest-serving techs, Spike has been a loyal p2pnet reader almost since the beginning and it’s good to see him acknowledged.
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https://isohunt.com https://torrentbox.com and https://forums.torrentbox.com are all now valid urls for reaching us.
This should mean that folks in Dubai, who have recently had to start using an alternate domain of ours, should now be able to visit us directly.
If you have issues with transparent proxies or mean people snooping on your connection, this should come as fantastic news for you. We’ll be evaluating how much extra load this places on our servers over the next few weeks, and if there’s a large outpouring of people preferring to browse isoHunt or TorrentBox securely, we’ll be investing in some dedicated hardware to handle the SSL connections.
(Soekris vpn1401’s have hifn chips with some very nice linux kernel drivers for crypto offloading, so they’d make our SSL stuff faster, and be completely transparent Smile)
Just a heads up: we did in fact buy certificates, but loading some pages may cause warnings due to ads and digg not being on SSL secured connections, so please don’t complain if you see these warnings. Your communication to isohunt.com and torrentbox.com are fully secure when browsing under https://.
Also, there’s a poll attached to this announcement, PLEASE give us your feedback regarding whether you’ll be using SSL or not.
“It took me maybe a few hours work, but about a day or so since I had to wait for SSL certificates,” Spike told p2pnet, adding:
“We originally planned SSL months ago (long before TPB ever spoke about it) but the talks sorta died off since we were wanting some dedicated accelerator cards to do this right and we generally need to prove our hardware requirements to Gary before he buys us stuff.
“Later, since had more reports of people getting blocked in other countries, we decided to go ahead with it without the cards and see how much SSL traffic we get, and will get the cards when we see enough traffic that requires the hardware offloading, thus proving their need.”
Back in March, “I received an email that isohunt.com is inaccessible from Dubai, but verified-p2p-links.com works (alternate domain for isohunt.com),” posted isoHunt founder Gary Fung, going on:
“We’ve also had issues with ISP’s in different countries, either have problem accessing isohunt.com entirely or have extremely slow DNS in resolving isohunt.com (60s+). I’m not sure if there’s some government sanctioned filtering in place (like in Dubai), but any report of network problems to isohunt.com is appreciated so we can see if we can find workarounds.”
This is another case in point of why we need Network Neutrality, said Fung.
Stay tuned.
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