Hiding Web Traffic with SSH: How to Protect Your Internet Privacy against Corporate Firewall or Insecure Wireless (Cyber Privacy Series Book 1)

Booklet for anyone who wants to keep private and free of censorship Internet access. Step-by-step guide explains how to ensure security on public wireless network, escape the corporate firewall loggers, and avoid Internet proxy filters.

Topics include: using SSH for implementing encrypted tunnel, how to install OpenSSH server and client on different versions of Windows, establishing connectivity through Microsoft proxy using PuTTY and cntlm utilities, configuring Firefox to work through secure SSH tunnel, and more (Article: ~2,900 words).

Table of Contents includes:
1. Introduction
2. Solution
3. Home Computer as a Server
OpenSSH Server Installation
OpenSSH Server Configuration
Windows Firewall
Internet Router Firewall
4. Work Computer as a Client
Installing and Configuring cntlm
Installing and Configuring PuTTY
Installing and Configuring Mozilla Firefox
Securing Wireless Connection
5. Testing Secure Connection
6. What’s Next?
Batch File
Certificate Authentication
7. Resources
Tools
Articles
Books
About the Author

Slava Gomzin, CISSP, ISA, PCIP, ECSP, Security+ has more than 15 years of professional experience in software development and application security. He is Security and Payments Technologist at Hewlett-Packard.
Slava Gomzin blogs about payment application security at http://www.gomzin.com.