Booklet for anyone who wants to keep private and free of censorship Internet access. Step-by-step guide explains how to ensure security on public wireless network, escape the corporate firewall loggers, and avoid Internet proxy filters.

Topics include: using SSH for implementing encrypted tunnel, how to install OpenSSH server and client on different versions of Windows, establishing connectivity through Microsoft proxy using PuTTY and cntlm utilities, configuring Firefox to work through secure SSH tunnel, and more (Article: ~2,700 words).

Table of Contents includes:

1. Introduction

2. Solution

3. Home Computer as a Server

OpenSSH Server Installation

OpenSSH Server Configuration

Windows Firewall

Internet Router Firewall

4. Work Computer as a Client

Installing and Configuring cntlm

Installing and Configuring PuTTY

Installing and Configuring Mozilla Firefox

Securing Wireless Connection

5. Testing Secure Connection

6. What's Next?

Batch File

Certificate Authentication

7. Resources

Tools

Articles

Books

About the Author

Slava Gomzin, CISSP, PCI ISA, PCIP, ECSP, Security+ has more than 15 years of professional experience in software development and security including

12 years in application development for retail industry and electronic payments,

10 years in .NET and SQL Server development,

6 years in application security and PCI compliance.

Slava Gomzin is Security Architect at Retalix USA. He lives in Dallas, Texas.