Running bittorrent over SSL could make sense for several applications. Anything you want distributed to a closed group, but large enough to warrant bittorrent would do well being distributed over bittorrent/SSL. Currently closed group distributions either don’t use any peer-to-peer distribution at all, or they use poor-man’s privacy/security. I’m referring to the “private” flag of . . .
There are two main architectures of peer-to-peer networks. There’s the peer-centric (limewire style) and content-centric (bittorrent style). In a peer-centric network each participant announces its existence to the network, and other peers looking for content go around asking peers if they have the content. This makes the peer-centric networks scale well with pieces of content. . . .