Question and Confirmation.
Geoff Down
geoffdown at fastmail.net
Sun Jan 30 23:53:00 UTC 2011
On Sun, 30 Jan 2011 23:33 +0000, "Matthew" <pumpkin at cotse.net> wrote:
> Each relay removes one layer of encryption.
> > Tor does *not* encrypt and send packet headers. Tor only relays the
> > data within a TCP connection.
> >
> OK. I get it. I think.
>
> Please confirm:
>
> The data is encrypted. The header is not encrypted.
>
> So if my ISP is monitoring my traffic all they see for the header is the
> connection to the first Tor node.
>
> In which case my question is: where is the information that tells the
> exit
> node which DNS resolution to do and therefore which website I am asking
> for?
In the *HTTP* headers, which are part of the encrypted TCP data
payload.
GD
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