| Component | Description | |-----------|-------------| | | 5 VPS instances located in North America, Europe, and Asia (AWS, Hetzner, DigitalOcean). | | Traffic Capture | tcpdump and Wireshark on each node; logs stored in encrypted archives. | | Performance Metrics | Latency (RTT), throughput (Mbps), TLS handshake time, error rates (HTTP 4xx/5xx). | | Privacy Metrics | IP address exposure, HTTP header leakage, TLS certificate analysis, DNS query patterns. | | Automation | Python 3.11 scripts using requests and asyncio to generate a controlled request schedule over 72 h. | | Baseline | Direct connection to Extatorrent.cc (when reachable) for comparison. |
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