On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 6:03 AM, Sebastian Hahn <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, June 7, 2010 4:26 am, emigrant wrote: >> i mean apart from anonymity, can it have something to do the work of >> SSL? >> i mean for all connection. >> >> thanks a lot > > No, this is not possible. To "do the work of SSL", > you need a destination that supports encryption, > and unfortunately many still don't support that.
To be explicit about why: no encryption will actually work unless the final party receiving your connection has the ability to decrypt it to see what you said. This would mean that, even if Tor had a built-in end-to-end encryption tool, wouldn't do you any good on sites that didn't install the tool as well. And once we're requiring both sides of the communication to install extra software, we might as well just have both sides just support SSL and be done with it. (Personally, I think that our chances are better here if it _is_ SSL: it's easier to convince website operators to support https than it would be to convince them to run a special Tor decryptor, run as a hidden service, or whatever Tor-specific option we might imagine.) peace, -- Nick *********************************************************************** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to [email protected] with unsubscribe or-talk in the body. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/
