More Tips for Secure Communication
Previously I’ve written about how to use SFTP, SSH and SSL to secure your web surfing experience. One of the tips was to use PuTTY as your SSH client to create an encrypted connection to DreamHost’s servers.
thinkholelabs now features a great tutorial about how to use PuTTY to create a secure tunnel in order to secure Firefox (or any other browser) and your Instant Messenger sessions.
In fact the SSH tunnel technology allows users to perform various internet tasks including browsing, email, database management, etc.
July 14th, 2006 at 09:28
Thanks so much for posting this – an incredibly useful link, didn’t realise SOCKS clients could use SSH port forwarding like that.
August 12th, 2006 at 08:04
Are we allowed to use this on our dreamhost server’s?
August 13th, 2006 at 10:41
Anonymous – Yes, I see no reason why not…