Does qBittorrent have a proper TOR support?

[kollin]

I'm asking this question because of the following article and I just want to be sure that i'm safe with qBittorrent +TOR 

 

There are three pieces to the attack (or three separate attacks that build on each other, if you prefer).
The first attack is on people who configure their Bittorrent application to proxy their tracker traffic through Tor. These people are hoping to keep their IP address secret from somebody looking over the list of peers at the tracker. The problem is that several popular Bittorrent clients (the authors call out uTorrent in particular, and I think Vuze does it too) just ignore their socks proxy setting in this case. Choosing to ignore the proxy setting is understandable, since modern tracker designs use the UDP protocol for communication, and socks proxies such as Tor only support the TCP protocol -- so the developers of these applications had a choice between "make it work even when the user sets a proxy that can't be used" and "make it mysteriously fail and frustrate the user". The result is that the Bittorrent applications made a different security decision than some of their users expected, and now it's biting the users.

 

The full story: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/bittor ... -good-idea

Do you, guys,  have any tips regarding qBittorrent+TOR combination 

[loki]

Probably have to get developer of qB or maybe even libtorrent but, I had always thought torrent protocol relied on BOTH TCP and UDP to be operational.

[kollin]

[quote="loki"]
Probably have to get developer of qB or maybe even libtorrent but, I had always thought torrent protocol relied on BOTH TCP and UDP to be operational.
[/quote]

Yes, i just wanted a clarification, because i'm not an expert ...

[Dayman]

[quote="loki"]
Probably have to get developer of qB or maybe even libtorrent but, I had always thought torrent protocol relied on BOTH TCP and UDP to be operational.
[/quote]
UDP is only used by DHT/PEX/LSD, udp trackers and uTP. If i remember correctly original bittorent protocol w/o all those extensions doesn't use UDP at all.

[kollin]

[quote="Dayman"]
UDP is only used by DHT/PEX/LSD, udp trackers and uTP. If i remember correctly original bittorent protocol w/o all those extensions doesn't use UDP at all.
[/quote]

So if i disable DHT/PEX/LSD, i'll be safe ?

[kollin]

I tried it with TOR. It works (connects with the tracker and peers ), but ocasonaly qbittorent leaks my real IP 

ss -eap | grep -i qbit
LISTEN    0      5                      *:6881                    *:*        users:(("qbittorrent",4587,13)) uid:1000 ino:8522 sk:ffff88022c92de80
LISTEN    0      5                      *:4433                    *:*        users:(("qbittorrent",4587,14)) uid:1000 ino:8524 sk:ffff88022c92d7c0
ESTAB      0      0              127.0.0.1:53548            127.0.0.1:9050    users:(("qbittorrent",4587,35)) uid:1000 ino:425931 sk:ffff880164d71440
ESTAB      0      0              127.0.0.1:53546            127.0.0.1:9050    users:(("qbittorrent",4587,33)) uid:1000 ino:425929 sk:ffff880164d73600
ESTAB      0      0              127.0.0.1:53547            127.0.0.1:9050    users:(("qbittorrent",4587,28)) uid:1000 ino:425930 sk:ffff880164d70000
ESTAB      0      0              127.0.0.1:53536            127.0.0.1:9050    users:(("qbittorrent",4587,34)) uid:1000 ino:425889 sk:ffff880164d706c0
ESTAB      0      0              127.0.0.1:53540            127.0.0.1:9050    users:(("qbittorrent",4587,40)) uid:1000 ino:426625 sk:ffff88014562f2c0
ESTAB      0      0              127.0.0.1:53554            127.0.0.1:9050    users:(("qbittorrent",4587,49)) uid:1000 ino:425937 sk:ffff8801454f6540
ESTAB      0      0            7*.**.**.**:6881        141.237.17.112:63002    users:(("qbittorrent",4587,48)) uid:1000 ino:425912 sk:ffff880164d73cc0
ESTAB      0      0              127.0.0.1:53553            127.0.0.1:9050    users:(("qbittorrent",4587,43)) uid:1000 ino:425936 sk:ffff8801454f4a40
ESTAB      0      0              127.0.0.1:53555            127.0.0.1:9050    users:(("qbittorrent",4587,50)) uid:1000 ino:425938 sk:ffff8801454f3600
ESTAB      0      0              127.0.0.1:52900            127.0.0.1:9050    users:(("qbittorrent",4587,22)) uid:1000 ino:424272 sk:ffff880145569440
ESTAB      0      0              127.0.0.1:53551            127.0.0.1:9050    users:(("qbittorrent",4587,41)) uid:1000 ino:425934 sk:ffff88022c92e540
CLOSE-WAIT 1      0              127.0.0.1:34043            127.0.0.1:9050    users:(("qbittorrent",4587,20)) uid:1000 ino:8544 sk:ffff88022c929440
ESTAB      0      0              127.0.0.1:53550            127.0.0.1:9050    users:(("qbittorrent",4587,39)) uid:1000 ino:425933 sk:ffff88022c928d80
ESTAB      0      0              127.0.0.1:53285            127.0.0.1:9050    users:(("qbittorrent",4587,42)) uid:1000 ino:425124 sk:ffff880164c4d100
ESTAB      0      0              127.0.0.1:53549            127.0.0.1:9050    users:(("qbittorrent",4587,38)) uid:1000 ino:425932 sk:ffff880164d721c0
ESTAB      0      0              127.0.0.1:53552            127.0.0.1:9050    users:(("qbittorrent",4587,44)) uid:1000 ino:425935 sk:ffff88022c92f2c0
ESTAB      0      0              127.0.0.1:53521            127.0.0.1:9050    users:(("qbittorrent",4587,51)) uid:1000 ino:425870 sk:ffff880164d74380
ESTAB      0      0              127.0.0.1:53533            127.0.0.1:9050    users:(("qbittorrent",4587,27)) uid:1000 ino:425886 sk:ffff880164d75100

The address starting with  7 is my real IP 

[sledgehammer_999]

Have you disabled uTP(?TP)? (Options->Speed->Enable bandwidth management(utp))

[kollin]

[quote="sledgehammer_999"]
Have you disabled uTP(?TP)? (Options->Speed->Enable bandwidth management(utp))
[/quote]

You are correct, disabling uTP(?TP) did the trick 
Thank you ! 

[Seedthis]

Tor isn't really suitable for torrent use though. It's not designed to do this and using it with torrent clients is causing damage to the Tor Project as it attracts "copyright owners"

See this article for example

If you want some anonimity

-> for free : you can use private trackers with https websites or I2P 
-> paid services : cheap VPNs (allowing P2P) or seedboxes (pricier). You have to be careful with VPN, some log too much information.

[Peter]

I hope you are aware that torrenting through TOR literally kills the whole network... :/

Just get a VPN who doesn't keep any logs and that's it.

[kollin]

[quote="shiki"]
I hope you are aware that torrenting through TOR literally kills the whole network... :/

Just get a VPN who doesn't keep any logs and that's it.
[/quote]

Yes i know and i'm currently investigating my options 
Can you advise my about vpn or seedbox, it seems i can't find info about what they log about their users 




P.S. Does enabling encryption on torrent client side prevents my ISP of seeing the file names of the torrents?

[Peter]

Here is the topic I started previously:
http://qbforums.shiki.hu/index.php?topic=816.0

They say what they log and what they don't.
BTGuard keeps no log at all, and no one sees what you download (not even a portion, a filename) if you use the encryption with it.

[kollin]

[quote="shiki"]
Here is the topic I started previously:
http://qbforums.shiki.hu/index.php?topic=816.0

They say what they log and what they don't.
BTGuard keeps no log at all, and no one sees what you download (not even a portion, a filename) if you use the encryption with it.
[/quote]

Thank you, you are very kind