How to set up my own SSL proxy?

[MDesigner]

Is there some way to set up a proxy on my home machine, so that I can be somewhere else, and surf using my home machine...but the traffic between "somewhere else" and home would be encrypted?

I'm looking for a way to do this for free. Thanks..

 

[ivan2]

I believe vnc is encoded? or is it Tight vnc

 

[n0cmonkey]

Might be able to setup Squid to do it. Be careful how you set proxies up, unless you want to give the world access to it.

 

[MDesigner]

Hmm. Well, the thing is, how would i make the proxy connection always encrypted? If I fill in the HTTP Proxy and SSL Proxy fields in my browser settings, going to www.msn.com won't use the SSL proxy.. it'll use the standard connection. I want all of my surfing to go through SSL.

Any ideas on how that would work?

 

[orakle]

make a vpn or something, thats what I had set up when i was working. Just had to mess with my routing table so I could see all the boxes at work instead of just the stuff at home. This is quite easy to do with a linux or freebsd box at home.

 

[MDesigner]

That's the problem..i've got Windows at home.

 

[MrChad]

Setting up a VPN server in Windows XP

 

[MDesigner]

Sorry, I'm not much of an IT guy. Once I set up a VPN server on my home XP machine, how do I set it up so my web browser at work connects securely to my home machine to fetch web pages?

Ah it doesn't matter.. we have a strict outgoing firewall here, nothing is open except port 80 and port 21. So I can't VPN home.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: MDesigner
Sorry, I'm not much of an IT guy. Once I set up a VPN server on my home XP machine, how do I set it up so my web browser at work connects securely to my home machine to fetch web pages?

Ah it doesn't matter.. we have a strict outgoing firewall here, nothing is open except port 80 and port 21. So I can't VPN home.

It sounds like you shouldn't be doing any of this. Talk to the IT guys for help.

 

[MDesigner]

Oh no..busted by the Anandtech IT Alliance