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Support => Feature requests => Topic started by: jase00 on April 05, 2012, 05:48 pm

Title: SSL on the site ?
Post by: jase00 on April 05, 2012, 05:48 pm

Hey :)

Just curious how come the sites dont appear to use SSL (unless I am missing something) ??

thanks

Title: Re: SSL on the site ?
Post by: envious on April 05, 2012, 05:52 pm

because they don't need it. tor is already end to end encrypted.

Title: Re: SSL on the site ?
Post by: jase00 on April 05, 2012, 06:43 pm

but when the exit-node sends the traffic to destination its in clear txt right ?
All the relaying is encrypted which is fine... but how do we know we are not going through a exit-node run by LE ??

thanks

Title: Re: SSL on the site ?
Post by: QTC on April 05, 2012, 07:01 pm

hidden location services don't utilize exit nodes so they're not susceptible to eavesdropping in that manner

Title: Re: SSL on the site ?
Post by: jase00 on April 05, 2012, 07:22 pm

ah thanks for clearing that up :)

bit of a major oversite I missed :P when I was reading up about all this stuff.