Encrypted File Sharing: P2P Fights Back

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Masking the user's IP address is the Holy Grail of file-sharing networks. An innovative software product recently released by Syncodea could eliminate concerns about getting caught and sued for sharing music and data files. Syncodea said that their product does not hide the IP address. Rather, it allows users of peer-to-peer shareware networks, such as Kazaa, to share files and data in encrypted transmissions on the open-swapping networks.

"Everybody now knows you can't download stuff for free," said Mark Ishikawa, CEO and founder of BayTSP, a leading security firm for the record industry. People who participate in file sharing through networks, he said, sooner or later will get caught. "It's like playing Russian Roulette."
Source: TechNewsWorld (http://www.technewsworld.com/story/34052.html)

[entropy]

so...if you can share encrypted files ... big deal ... all they have to do is decrypt it, and if it's a government agency, they WILL do it rather quickly. seems worthless to me

[Spinner]

so...if you can share encrypted files ... big deal ... all they have to do is decrypt it, and if it's a government agency, they WILL do it rather quickly. seems worthless to me
Not when it's the BUSH administration pulling the ropes.

That was just a little joke. It was in no means intended to insight a political debate. So no-one start one please. ;)

[Camman]

so...if you can share encrypted files ... big deal ... all they have to do is decrypt it, and if it's a government agency, they WILL do it rather quickly. seems worthless to me

Even the simplest computer encryption technology can take days to crack on supercomputer systems, I doubt government resources would be wasted on such a thing for peer to peer filesharing..

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Yes, it should be very difficult for them to decrypt the data. So what? It mentions hiding the IP address as the holy grail... does this achieve it? I don't think so. That means that someone in government (edit: or RIAA or MPAA etc.) can hop on and pretend to download something himself, and then he's got plenty of guilty IPs to choose from and the encryption hasn't helped anyone.