End of Tor: Rogue Nodes Turn Tor Anonymizer Into Eavesdropper's Paradise

Posted by nickb on Thursday September 13, 2007 @09:02PM
from the wired.com dept.

http://www.wired.com/politics/security/news/2007/09/embassy_hacks?currentPage=1

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Re:End of Tor: Rogue Nodes Turn Tor Anonymizer Into Eavesdro... by bharath on Thursday September 13, 2007 @11:44PM (#54492)

Misleading title. Tor promises an anonymous source IP and nothing more. Its still good for that application.

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Re:End of Tor: Rogue Nodes Turn Tor Anonymizer Into Eavesdro... by rms on Thursday September 13, 2007 @10:27PM (#54473)

This is a known issue with Tor. It doesn't encrypt data, it just anonymizes it. If you put unencrypted info in Tor, it comes out on the other side unencrypted.

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