On 7/15/05, Johan P. Lindstrvm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Good afternoon list, I'm just going to throw out an idea here and lets take > turns kicking at it. > > I'm not too familiar with the inner workings of the needed technologies > (sometimes a pro, often a con) but what if one would use a https proxy, like > say squid with SSL/TLS support, to obfuscate the http traffic leaving your > laptop over the WiFi LAN to your local OpenBSD box that runs the proxy, that > would then with some magic serve you the pages. So that http traffic could > not be intercepted on the open WiFi network. > > Is someone doing something similar already? > > Googling did not turn up anything helpful here apart from the SSL support in > Squid, but would the protocols allow something like this? > > -- Johan > >
I probably shouldn't be kicking my own dead thread, but in lack of better knowledge... I just found someone who is doing roughly what I was trying to explain. http://wifi.google.com/faq.html Haven't tried it since I'm about 10-11 hours in a Airbus 330 away... http://wifi.google.com/download.html -- // Johan
