Require obfuscated server connection

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''Require obfuscated server connection'' makes sure that only obfuscated traffic to servers is send and received.  
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''Require obfuscated server connection'' makes sure that only obfuscated traffic to servers is sent and received.  
  
This has at the time of creation the big advantage that no connections to fake/ad servers are made since they do not support obfuscation. The protocol how to make obfuscated connections to a server is open source and documented, so in the future bad server might also appear. But for now you can freeley accept servers form server since fake server are filtered out.
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This has, at the time of creation, the big advantage that less connections to fake/ad servers are made since most do not support obfuscation. The protocol specifying how to make obfuscated connections to a server is open source and documented, so in the future fake/ad servers might also appear.  
  
A side effect of obfuscated connection is that no-one can spy on your traffic on change it simple. But remember that obfuscation does not make eMule a anonymous application.  
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A side effect of an obfuscated connection is that no one can spy on your traffic or easily change it. But remember that obfuscation does not make eMule an anonymous application.  
  
 
== working ==
 
== working ==
To make a obfuscated connection to server first a encryption (obfuscation is done by encryption) key has to be exchanged. This can be done by a udp "cryptping" package, or by making a not obfuscated connection. if udp fails or no previous connection has been made then the obfuscation will fail and the connection will not be made. As of morph 9.6 there is no gui indication if a valid encyption key is available.  
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To make an obfuscated connection to a server, first, an encryption key has to be exchanged (obfuscation is done by encryption). This can be done by a UDP "cryptping" package, or by making a non-obfuscated connection. If UDP fails or no previous connection has been made, then the obfuscation will fail and the connection will not be made. As of Morph 9.6 there is no GUI indication if a valid encyption key is available.  
  
The "required obfuscated server connection" option is independent of of the security settings. SO most of your cleint connections can still be not obfuscated. Only if you disable obfuscation in the security settings completely this otpion will also be disabled.
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The "required obfuscated server connection" option is independent of the security settings. So most of your client connections will still be non-obfuscated. Only if you completely disable obfuscation in the security settings will this option be disabled.
  
obfuscation also makes that ip adress of servers can not be faked in udp traffic.  
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Obfuscation also makes that ip adress of servers can not be faked in udp traffic.
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With an obfuscated connection to a server, other servers are unable to fake the IP of the server using UDP traffic to a client.
  
  
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Latest revision as of 20:10, 6 May 2010

Require obfuscated server connection makes sure that only obfuscated traffic to servers is sent and received.

This has, at the time of creation, the big advantage that less connections to fake/ad servers are made since most do not support obfuscation. The protocol specifying how to make obfuscated connections to a server is open source and documented, so in the future fake/ad servers might also appear.

A side effect of an obfuscated connection is that no one can spy on your traffic or easily change it. But remember that obfuscation does not make eMule an anonymous application.

[edit] working

To make an obfuscated connection to a server, first, an encryption key has to be exchanged (obfuscation is done by encryption). This can be done by a UDP "cryptping" package, or by making a non-obfuscated connection. If UDP fails or no previous connection has been made, then the obfuscation will fail and the connection will not be made. As of Morph 9.6 there is no GUI indication if a valid encyption key is available.

The "required obfuscated server connection" option is independent of the security settings. So most of your client connections will still be non-obfuscated. Only if you completely disable obfuscation in the security settings will this option be disabled.

Obfuscation also makes that ip adress of servers can not be faked in udp traffic.

With an obfuscated connection to a server, other servers are unable to fake the IP of the server using UDP traffic to a client.


[edit] Official behavior

Note that official has a "require obfuscated" option, but that still allows unencrypted connections to servers that do not support it. Also "require obfuscated" is not recommended since you cannot connect to other clients that do not support it, limiting the number of sources you can reach by a lot.

Note that by default on official obfuscation is supported, but not enabled. This means that obfuscated connections are accepted, but not initiated by the client.

[edit] See also:

Protocol obfuscation