Turn on encryption!

Unless I'm highly mistaken, Vuze uses encryption by default i.e. first message from your client to a new peer will always be encrypted, but if that fails, then it will try non-encrypted messages. And as for incoming it will accept both.

Which pretty much translates to optimum settings as you allow both encrypted and non-encrypted.

I'm not sure about uTorrents default.
 
for utorrent, I think the best settings to get the best up and down speeds are enabled and allow legacy connections. This would allow your client to send both encrypted and plain data as well as received both.

To send and received only encrypted, the settings should be forced and uncheck allow legacy connections respectively. Speeds will suffer though because some clients won't send encrypted and you can only up to certain clients. Only reason to do this would be to try to bypass throttling.

I could be wrong.
 
Just to clarify, this really doesn't protect you against anything (since everyone can still see your IP address). Additionally, deep packet inspection can still reason out that it's bittorrent traffic. The main reason to enable encryption is to circumvent throttling measures put into place from some ISPs. And since there's no detriment to you encrypting traffic, you may as well do so :)
 
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