> I was under the impression that all traffic was encrypted. Welllll.... IIRC, traffic entering the Tor network and traffic between Tor nodes is encrypted wit

> I was under the impression that all traffic was encrypted. Welllll.... IIRC, traffic entering the Tor network and traffic between Tor nodes is encrypted with TLS. This means that the only place an adversary that doesn't have a compromised entry node can read your traffic is when the exit node makes any non-encrypted requests on your behalf. To summarize: if you use TLS (or some other encrypted transport) over Tor, your communications will always be encrypted (obviously). If you use an unencrypted transport over Tor, then the exit node[0] will be able to read your traffic, in exactly the same way that your ISP would be able to read that traffic if you chose to route it over your home Internet connection. :) [0] But only the exit node!