On 2003.10.14 08:02 Tim Fournet wrote: > There are a few other things you can do if you've got the time and > inclination. For one, you could set up a real VPN between your notebook > and another machine, and route all traffic through that. Of course, for > it to work on your home computer, you'd need an easy way to find it like > dyndns. By doing that with CIPE or IPSec or something, you could not > only secure your email, but any other traffic that you don't want > getting sniffed. This would also let you use your regular mail clients > to read email and not rely on using SSH and text-mode clients. > > You could also do port-forwarding with SSH. Your laptop would need to > have an SSH client that handles port forwarding, which might be hard > with Windows. You'll also need to set up multiple forwards on multiple > ports to have it connect to multiple external mail servers, unless you > do the fetchmail thing and collect it all on your home machine. > > -Tim >
I don't know much about CIPE or IPSec other than Red Hat uses CIPE. I assumed Karthik was using a Linux laptop and could do "ssh -X mybox" if bandwith alows it. That's what I'd do if someone sent me something that I just had to see graphically. If bandwith were poor, I'd just save the file and sftp it to myself. If he's using Windoze, he might as well not worry about hiding his passwords.
