Arrakis Tor writes: > What i understood is that when you send data to the entrynode it is in > plaintext. Only then is it encrypted and passed through the circuit. > The entrynode can read the plaintext data, no? Roger answered, but let me supplement. There might be confusion as to what the entry node actually is. There is the onion proxy (OP), which is the Tor instance that actually receives the original request directly from your application; the OP is not the same as the first onion router (OR) in your randomly selected Tor circuit. The first OR is the "entry node". In diagram 3 on <http://tor.eff.org/overview.html>, the OP is running on Alice's computer, and the upper left Tor server is the first OR. The traffic between the application and the OP is unencrypted, but we don't show that on our diagram because, if you are wise and run the OP on the same machine as the application, it doesn't matter (much). -- http://www.eff.org/about/staff/#chris_palmer
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