Key Tracking

[Smithers]

Hi all,

Quick question really, one that I haven't been able to find an answer for yet, so hopefully you'll be able to help.

Regarding the sharing keys for public folders, is there anyway that key can be traced back to the person sharing the key?

Apologies if this question has been asked before.

Thanks for your help.

S

[GreatMarko]

is there anyway that key can be traced back to the person sharing the key?

You'd be able to see the IP addresses of connecting peers in your Sync logs, but that's about it! (also, if any connections were "relayed" the IP addresses won't be the actual end-user's real IP addresses)

Additionally, if you're already sharing a "full-access" secret, and multiple peers now have copies of the files you're sharing, it would be impossible for someone to determine which of these "peers" the files originally came from in the first instance, as given the distributed nature of Syncing via P2P, data will be sent to/received from multiple peers.

[RomanZ]

@Smithers,

 

GreatMarko take a look on key tracking "inside" BTSync. Note, that there is also an "outside" counterpart: it depends on how do you share the key: if you publish it, say, on some website, website admins can track your IP.