Spy nodes know what websites you are visiting?

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@Dirk83

Say I want to access a data element which is supposed to be illegal so I don’t want my neighbour node to know and link it to my IP address.

Can’t I just encrypt this destination and send it to a node that can decrypt it? Then he retrieves the information I really need and sends it back to me?

You would basically need some system that you can target a node which can decrypt your package.

Good questions. Take a look here:

What about nodes sniffing data?

I posted this subject already on Reddit. Here again, hoping to see some more people look into the subject. One thing I really don’t get is the fact that the same file is encrypted using the same technique and still nobody’s able to link a file to an ip-adress. Let’s say I join the network. I have 4 close peers based on XOR. When I ask the network for a file, what happends? Do I ask the 4 closest peers (let’s call them my group) for these files? Does any peer in my group receives my request for…

and here:

All the encryption layers for SAFEnet

In this topic I’ll try to get my head around all the different encryption layers used for the SAFEnet. I looked into the systemdocs but I’m not a C++ programmer so I can’t get in on that level. If I’m wrong, please correct me. I love to learn about how this stuff really works on a deeper level. First layer I start my maidsafeclient and my ip-adres is 22.33.44.55.66. In the client software some IP-addresses and public keys are available for me to connect to a bootstrap-node run by Maidsafe. T…

As far as I know, you’re closest nodes don’t know you ip-address [incorrect - see note below - @happybeing]. Think of it like some sort of proxy. So you connect to 4 ip-addresses. Ask for your personal file (datamap, data-atlas etc.) decrypt that file with your password, and then ask the 4 ip-addresses you’re connected to, to connect you to the 4 nodes based on XOR. That connection is encrypted. So the ip-addresses you’re connected to don’t see which chunks you ask from your closest nodes. They only see encrpyted data coming by. Your 4 closest nodes don’t know you ip-address. They only know your XOR-addres. So they know about address “FGKJGEKJGFEKJGFEJKGFGEJFGJEF” asking for chunk “JHWQJFHQWJFHQJFHQJHFQKJHFKJQHKJ”. And like @dirvine said, even that can be fixed.