Thanks again for taking time to answer all the questions.. This helped me a lot.
I am adding Tor-talk mailing list to my address book... Cheers, Torzilla11 > From: datzr...@alizeepathology.com > To: tor-relays@lists.torproject.org > Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2014 16:16:45 -0400 > Subject: Re: [tor-relays] Need Routing Info on Relays > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > Thats a ton of information which is very much simplified.. > > Specially the graphics ;) > > Anytime. > > > I have a clear understanding now.. So what i figured is as far > > as my ISP goes, he only knows that i am using Tor, period. > > Anyone who can monitor both ends of the connection can tell > who is doing what by looking at who sends data into Tor > and when similarly sized data leaves Tor. There are other > attacks as well. Generally speaking though, I think its safe to > assume that your ISP will only be able to see that you are > using Tor. > > > Rest all is good to go.. All thanks to encryption. Then i assume > > this makes it a better option than VPN. Am i right? > > Generally speaking Tor does a better job anonymising you than a > VPN does. To use the previous metaphor, in a VPN you take your > message to Google and you put it in an envelope to Alice. Alice > then sends it to Google for you. Alice knows who you are and who > you are talking to. Google just knows you send things via Alice. > Your ISP knows that you use Alice as well. Alice is the weak point > here as if she caves or is untrustworthy, you have no protection. > > Using a VPN just shifts who can watch you from your ISP to your > VPN provider. This is a good thing if you trust your VPN provider > more than your ISP, but someone still knows who you are and what > you are doing. > > > Also a quick question jumped in.. Say i have a Raspberry PI which is > > converted > > to a TOR router and i connect my machine to this router. Will this make the > > entire traffic go via TOR including something as simple as a ping request. > > No. There is some additional configuration that needs done. If you'd > like all of your traffic to go through Tor, I'd recommend using > Tails. https://tails.boum.org/ > > > Say i ping a machine on the web, will it stay anonymous or i will have to > > use proxychains, for what i know both of them are doing the same thing apart > > from encryption in TOR as an added feature. > > I'm not very familiar with proxychains, so I can't answer that. > > Also this seems like a conversation best brought to the Tor-talk mailing > list rather than the Tor-relay list. At least the general Tor questions > part of it. > > Thank you, > Derric Atzrott > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (MingW32) > > iD8DBQFUNu0hRHoDdZBwKDgRAswtAJ9CGp9pg+aPX+qncR+AMXRBXoB0AQCeMgvY > mzykQQQFQl1q5Dk3vrO5KPg= > =XwMk > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > tor-relays mailing list > tor-relays@lists.torproject.org > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
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