> > SSH tunneling allows me to encrypt not only mail, but > > any other traffic I choose. > > Ah, OK. You do it all in one shot.
Ok, call me simple, but how can the (mythical) average Jo[e] user build ssh tunnels to do this for themselves? Wouldn't they have to, at least, setup a server at home, then tunnel to it from the public hotspot, and from there go out to the rest of the world? I guess the simplest way for a non-technical user to do that is to buy a VPN router for home and then always VPN to home when they're at hotspots. A strange way to surf, but with the speed of home broadband connections these days, probably quite workable once the config hassles are solved. Or maybe I'm missing something? Is there some general way to use SSH tunnels to surf that I'm missing? Please enlighten me! :-) In the meantime, I definitely use the S variants of IMAP and SMTP (as one poster put it) while I'm at public hotspots. I don't have a server running at home all the time that I wish to dedicate to this ... though I suspect I could make my m0n0wall based firewall do this without too much hassle. cheers, michael
