http://www.calazan.com Share the Knowledge Sun, 05 Sep 2010 00:59:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://www.calazan.com/how-to-encrypt-http-traffic-and-bypass-most-firewalls-using-ssh-tunneling-with-putty-in-windows/ http://www.calazan.com/how-to-encrypt-http-traffic-and-bypass-most-firewalls-using-ssh-tunneling-with-putty-in-windows/#comments Thu, 04 Sep 2008 23:07:52 +0000 webmaster http://www.calazan.com/how-to-encrypt-http-traffic-and-bypass-most-firewalls-using-ssh-tunneling-with-putty-in-windows/ I’ve been using SSH Tunneling for a while now mainly to encrypt HTTP traffic when using public wireless access points.  I won’t go into detail here, just Google for “SSH Tunneling” if you need more information.  I’m also gonna assume you already have an SSH Server set up.

• Download PuTTY and save it to C:/.
• Open notepad, type in the command below and save it as securetunnel.bat (Note: remove username@ and -pw password if you prefer to get prompted for them for security reasons):
  • c:\putty -D 8080 -P 22 -ssh username@ssh_server_ip -pw password
• Double-click securetunnel.bat to connect to your SSH server.
• Open your internet browser and change its proxy settings to use 127.0.0.1:8080 as the SOCKS host.  To do this in Internet Explorer 7, go to Tools -> Internet Options -> Connections Tab -> LAN Settings -> Check “Use a proxy server for your LAN…” -> Click the “Advanced” button and set the settings just like the picture below:”

• Go to http://www.whatismyip.com and if your public IP shows up the same as your SSH server’s public IP then you’re all set!

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