TOR: traffic between my workstation TOR entry point really not encrypted..?
 

Hello


Incognito 2008.1-r1 Walkthrough:
By relaying your Internet traffic through the Tor network (which Incognito does per default) your communications should only be considered to be untraceable back to the computer you use, not encrypted or in any other way hidden. While the traffic is encrypted when it leaves your computer and when you get back your responses, it will not be so when sent between the Tor network and your destination (this is unavoidable -for technical reasons).


Good to know! My idea was always that the traffic between my workstation and my TOR entry point is encrypted....


Thank's!

John

You can always encrypt with gpg, then send using Tor.

You're misunderstanding what I tried to say there. When you send something to the Tor entry, it is encrypted. The only time it's not encrypted is when the Tor exit communicates with the destination, and hence the exit node will see what you send (but cannot trace it back to you).

See these pictures. The double arrows (===>) denote encrypted traffic while the single arrows (--->) denote unencrypted traffic.. This is when you send something:
This is when you receive something:

Thank's a lot for the clarification!

John