This HotSpot Shield must route all your encrypted network traffic from your PC through its own server. This creates a major bottleneck and can't possibly be close to all other web servers, since the web is worldwide! This would be very effective if you didn't trust your ISP or some local threat. Of course, once it passes through the HotSpot server, it is in plain text and this could be the majority of its route. It certainly came through my ISP in plain text.
Some web traffic is encrypted by design. Anytime you go to a secure site (one where the URL starts with "https://";) it is encrypted from your PC all the way to the final web server and back. This is used for all on line ordering, bank sites and the majority of sites where you log in with a password. I believe, even omen a nonsecure site the password itself is encrypted. In my opinion, it would be nice if all traffic was encrypted. Of course this would come at a cost of performance both on your pc and on the server, since encryption and decryption takes up resources. Even on encrypted traffic, the entire network packet is not encrypted. Only the data is encrypted. The headers, which contain important routing information is in plain text. The headers contain your IP address, the destination IP address, and protocol information. If this was encrypted, the routers all over the web could not function. This is where IP spoofing and anonymous schemes come into play in an effort to hide your identity. I am not sure how effective these schemes are and none are foolproof. Don Marang. or ----- Original Message ----- From: "aiden gardiner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, July 19, 2008 3:56 PM Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] web traffic encryption > Alex, I think the data is decrypted just before it reaches the > destination, > IE, i'm using a program called hotspot shield, recommended by a friend, so > this message will be encrypted, david, apologies if this is not allowed, > butI think we should be ok. > > Let me know if your able to read it ok, my MSN contacts can read > everything > just fine. > > Aiden > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Alex Stone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, July 19, 2008 8:50 PM > Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] web traffic encryption > > >> Aidan, This is all very well, but if you find such a program how are the >> websites, e-mail recipients etc at the far end supposed to decrypt the >> data? >> Cheers >> Alex >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of aiden >> gardiner >> Sent: 19 July 2008 20:09 >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] web traffic encryption >> >> Chris, >> >> I've found a program called iOpus Private Internet Gateway (iPIG), but >> i'm >> not sure how accessible it is, and i'm hesitant about trying an unknown >> application on my only working machine. as for your theory on data being >> encrypted as it leaves your network, that is incorrect, as the data is >> only >> encrypted locally, in order to stop hackers intersepting your data >> packets >> while they're still traveling from your machine to the router, however, >> after they are processed, they are transfered over the internet as pure >> text, an easy target for any hacker. my aim is to encrypt the data after >> it >> is transmitted from the router to the internet. the link for this program >> if >> >> anyone would like to give it a shot is >> http://www.iopus.com/iPig/ >> >> Aiden >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Chris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: "aiden gardiner" <[email protected]> >> Sent: Saturday, July 19, 2008 2:50 PM >> Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] web traffic encryption >> >> >>> Hi, can you please elaborate? For example, when we go on broadband our >>> connection will be encrypted as the wireless router should be >>> security-enabled and uses WPA-PSK for the type of encryption. So are >>> there >> >>> also software solutions out there? 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