Re: Question and Confirmation.

2011-01-30 Thread Matthew
On 30/01/11 02:32, and...@torproject.org wrote: On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 11:29:25PM +, pump...@cotse.net wrote 2.3K bytes in 53 lines about: : My understanding is that Tor encrypts both the content of a data : packet and also the header. It encrypts the packet and header three : times on

Re: Question and Confirmation.

2011-01-30 Thread Robert Ransom
On Sun, 30 Jan 2011 22:33:21 + Matthew pump...@cotse.net wrote: On 30/01/11 02:32, and...@torproject.org wrote: On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 11:29:25PM +, pump...@cotse.net wrote 2.3K bytes in 53 lines about: : My understanding is that Tor encrypts both the content of a data : packet

Re: Question and Confirmation.

2011-01-30 Thread Matthew
Each relay removes one layer of encryption. Tor does *not* encrypt and send packet headers. Tor only relays the data within a TCP connection. I'm still not getting this. My understanding is that you have the data and the header when using TCP. If only the data is encrypted then what

Re: Question and Confirmation.

2011-01-30 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Sun, 30 Jan 2011 23:15:17 + Matthew pump...@cotse.net wrote: I'm still not getting this. My understanding is that you have the data and the header when using TCP. If only the data is encrypted then what happens to the headers? Does this image help at all?

Re: Question and Confirmation.

2011-01-30 Thread Matthew
Each relay removes one layer of encryption. Tor does *not* encrypt and send packet headers. Tor only relays the data within a TCP connection. OK. I get it. I think. Please confirm: The data is encrypted. The header is not encrypted. So if my ISP is monitoring my traffic all they see

Re: Question and Confirmation.

2011-01-30 Thread Geoff Down
On Sun, 30 Jan 2011 23:33 +, Matthew pump...@cotse.net wrote: Each relay removes one layer of encryption. Tor does *not* encrypt and send packet headers. Tor only relays the data within a TCP connection. OK. I get it. I think. Please confirm: The data is encrypted. The

Re: Question and Confirmation.

2011-01-29 Thread andrew
On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 11:29:25PM +, pump...@cotse.net wrote 2.3K bytes in 53 lines about: : My understanding is that Tor encrypts both the content of a data : packet and also the header. It encrypts the packet and header three : times on the client (my computer) and then at each node one

Question and Confirmation.

2011-01-28 Thread Matthew
I just want to confirm one thing and ask something else. My understanding is that Tor encrypts both the content of a data packet and also the header. It encrypts the packet and header three times on the client (my computer) and then at each node one layer is decrypted until the data packet