Downloading attachments with Tor - is this secure?

[andrew at torproject.org]

On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 08:22:50AM +0100, pumpkin at cotse.net wrote 2.9K bytes in 70 lines about:
> I assume the attachment downloads from Yahoo Mail (or whatever) through  
> the three Tor nodes before being unencrypted at the final node and then  
> is downloaded to my computer.   In other words: the attachment (or for  
> that matter any file downloaded in the same way) is never downloaded  
> "outside" the Tor system - that is directly from the website to me  
> bypassing the Tor nodes?

If your browser is properly configured to use Tor, then yes the
attachments should download via Tor.  Otherwise, that would be one
massive leak.

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