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Posted by Joan Battaglia on October 28, 2007, 10:06 am
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On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 10:24:30 +0100 (CET), Anonymous wrote:
> It is confusing at first. Think of it like plastic pipe. HTTP is a
> clear pipe running from you to your destination. Anyone can see through
> the pipe and know everything that flows through it. They can also
> follow the pipe from beginning to end very easily.
>
> Tor is like a large black pipe, with a whole bunch of smaller pipes
> running inside it all exiting out the other end and going their own
> way. While your connection is inside the black pipe nobody can see it.
> Once it leaves that outer covering at the Tor exit node it's in the
> clear again. But since there's thousands upon thousands of smaller
> pipes all mixed up inside the "Tor pipe" nobody can really figure out
> which pipe belongs to which user.
>
> SSL/HTTPS is like a single black pipe running between you and your
> destination. It's trivial to follow that pipe from end to end and know
> who the source and destination are, but nothing flowing inside the pipe
> is visible.
>
> Combining Tor and SSL/HTTPS puts a bunch of black pipes inside a larger
> black pipe for a time, but then those smaller pipes still retain their
> opaque quality after leaving the Tor pipe. So you not only have the
> anonymity of hiding your connection inside a "larger pipe" mixed up with
> everyone else's, you still maintain privacy because nobody can see
> what's flowing through the connection once it leaves that collective.
Now this, makes sense!
I understand this - thank you for taking the time to explain in a manner
that can be understood by all!
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