BitTorrent Sync P2P file synchronization service launched for everyone

After three months of testing , BitTorrent launched the BitTorrent Sync service for file synchronization and backup using the BitTorrent protocol between arbitrary devices.

BitTorrent Sync is more secure than Dropbox and other cloud services because it does not store files in the cloud, and no company or third party can access your files. Instead, the user chooses which devices to back up to. All traffic between BitTorrent Sync nodes is encrypted with a 256-bit AES key, which is created on the basis of a random string unique to each folder. Key generation is done using dev / random (Mac, Linux) and the Crypto API (Windows).



Synchronization is possible between devices on different operating systems. The main thing is that the same secret key is specified.



Theoretically, the key can be shared with a large community of people by organizing large, shared P2P repositories. So, the company BitTorrent for test purposes has opened a public repository with the key RWC4YD3S723QRVHHHIZWJXPTQMO6GKEQR.

BitTorrent Sync FAQ
User Guide (pdf)