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Encrypting Your Web Browsing Session

Lifehacker has a great feature on how to encrypt your web browsing with an SSH Socks Proxy.

  1. You’ll need an SSH server. If you don’t have access or can’t get access through a web host, many of which allow this access, you can always run your own.
  2. You’ll also need a client. The most popular one for Windows computer is Putty. It is simple to use.
  3. Set up your SSH client to establish a tunnel between a local port and a port on the server.
  4. Set up your Internet browser to use a Socks proxy.

Now, that seems a bit hard for some people. There are alternatives.

  • Tor – Tor is a toolset for those who want to anonymize their internet usage.
  • Routers – Various routers can run SSH and even a SOCKS proxy. Most of these are Linux-based routers running custom firmware. More information
Published on February 24, 2007
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