Ted - or anyone,
what do you suggest for this scenario:
my own laptop (XP Pro) in an internet cafe. I want to a) link to machine(s)
at home. b) Use a proxy to get onto the internet because some sites (e.g.
the UK lottery) are selectively blocked depending on e.g country of access.
I have crossloop installed which works OK through my nat'ing router** but
needs a user to authorise access (I see that crossloop uses TightVNC under
the hood - perhaps I could run it directly?)
** Actually I still can't get it to work when I'm working through our
corporate vpn, despite setting crossloop up to use our proxy and specifying
my login + password.
Andrew Davies MBCS CITP
- AndyD 8-)#
"Ted Roche"
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On 8/6/07, Tracy Pearson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If I setup a linux box with and put SSL on it. Using a dynamic dns, I use
> Putty to connect and port forward my http protocols, and a few others.
I suspect you are confusing SSL (Secure Sockets Layer, an encryption
technique for passing https protocols, typically on port 443) with SSH
(Secure Shell, a means of establishing an ecrypted tunnel betweeen two
machines, typically port 22).
If you are using Putty, you are using SSH.
> Does this create more problems than it is worth?
> Is this seen as more secure way of using hot spot wi-fi connections?
I take it you are connecting from a hotspot into your internal domain,
using SSH to encrypt the traffic from your machine to your domain, and
forwarding the unencrypted http traffic over that domain? That's a
Best Practice, as long as you own and maintain security on the
end-point, the machine you're using to attach. If you are using
someone else's kiosk, that machine is insecure, period.
--
Ted Roche
Ted Roche & Associates, LLC
http://www.tedroche.com
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