Privacy matters

steeeve8

Hi,

The encryption and decryption of the VPN is done after or before the information has arrived to the router? I work in a company and my personal laptop is connected to the main network by wire, and I would like to know if the IT engineer is able to see the information that I surf in the internet when my personal laptop is connected to the company internet service (when OpenVPN is working, of course).

Thank you very much!!!

maikcat

The encryption and decryption of the VPN is done after or before the information has arrived to the router?

the encryption/decryption takes place on openvpn endpoints.

Michael.

steeeve8

Michael,

Thank you for answering my question so fast, I appreciate it. I'm not used to work with VPN, so I'm still a learner in this area. Please be patient with me 🙂

Those endpoints you're talking, are in my computer? I mean, the encryption/decryption is done in my computer? That means that the IT engineer of my company is unable to see what pages I'm surfing on my computer while I'm connected by VPN becase the traffic that goes by the computer's company router is encrypted?

I'm not an english native, so maybe my expressions are not quite correct. 🙂

maikcat

by saying endpoints i mean client and server,
so if you use openvpn as a client to connect then yes YOU are the client (your pc actually).

That means that the IT engineer of my company is unable to see what pages I'm surfing on my computer while I'm connected by VPN becase the traffic that goes by the computer's company router is encrypted?

if your browser does not use any other kind of proxy then yes traffic is encrypted and cannot
be seeing by your IT, but your IT can notice that you are using openvpn if he uses DPI
in his network (Deep Packet Inspection).

Michael.