On Jul 15, 2005, at 12:03 PM, Johan P. Lindstrvm wrote:
Good afternoon list, I'm just going to throw out an idea here and
lets take
turns kicking at it.
I'm not too familiar with the inner workings of the needed
technologies
(sometimes a pro, often a con) but what if one would use a https
proxy, like
say squid with SSL/TLS support, to obfuscate the http traffic
leaving your
laptop over the WiFi LAN to your local OpenBSD box that runs the
proxy, that
would then with some magic serve you the pages. So that http
traffic could
not be intercepted on the open WiFi network.
Is someone doing something similar already?
Googling did not turn up anything helpful here apart from the SSL
support
in Squid, but would the protocols allow something like this?
You're kidding, right? Quit messing around with application-layer
encryption if you need everything encrypted. Go the lowest common
denominator. Well, almost the lowest. ;-)
man 8 vpn
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Jason Dixon
DixonGroup Consulting
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