The squid solution only would encrypt http or ftp traffic if I'm familiar with the basic working, leaving out e-mail encryption, which would be quit an issue for the security-sensitive wifi users.
The Google solution is nothing but a vpn client with a google paint job. On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 06:09:49PM +0200, Johan P. Lindstr?m wrote: > 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 > -- ---------------------------- mitc groningen 9736cp
