following on from today's discussion

[Jay Goodman Tamboli]

(moving back to or-talk)

On 2006.08.21, at 13:06, Robert Hogan wrote:
> On Sunday 20 August 2006 23:19, Chris Palmer wrote:
>> Jay Goodman Tamboli writes:
>>> Is it true that your traffic is more likely to be eavesdropped upon?
>>
>> We can only speculate.  End-to-end encryption...
>
> It's not a matter of speculation. Using Tor expands the number of  
> potential
> eavesdroppers by at least the number of exit nodes in the Tor network.

While it's true the number of potential eavesdroppers across all  
connections increases that much, the number of potential  
eavesdroppers for any one connection or at any single time would seem  
to increase only a little. That is, without Tor you have your ISP and  
whatever computers are between it and your destination, and with Tor  
you have the exit node operator, his ISP, and whatever computers are  
between it and your destination. Whether the exit node operator is  
likely to eavesdrop is, I think, speculation.

/jgt
-- 
http://tamboli.cx/
PGP Key ID: 0x7F2AC862B511029F