On Sun, Feb 08, 2009 at 07:56:10PM +1100, Chip Panarchy wrote: > Hello > > You've probably been to a café before that offered WiFi via a Wireless > Hotspot. Or maybe you've been to an airport that had some hotspots? > Well whatever the case, I'm sure you've seen a Public Wireless > Hotspot. Or, at the very least, heard of them. > > So my question to you is, NOT on how to secure the Wireless Hotspot, > but rather on how to secure the connection on my end, to the Hotspot. > > So, how do I secure my PC at a Wireless Hotspot? > > Would there be a way to have 256-bit AES or 256-bit Camellia > encryption on all outgoing traffic? > > Or would you recommend a different method? > > If this is of any use, I will be using the following laptop: Dell > Inspiron 700m. > > Can I please have some recommendations on what I need in order to > secure my connection to the > Wireless Hotspot? > > Thanks in advance, > > Chip D. Panarchy >
If you have a secure server to SSH into, you can just use tsocks to forward and SSL-encrypt your traffic. http://pobega.wordpress.com/2009/02/01/tunneling-a-connection-through-ssh/ -- http://pobega.wordpress.com http://identica/pobega
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