Cannot be easily more secure than this! ssh-tunneling and bitvise
I am not sure about DNS queries, I am pretty sure there is away to encrypt that as well, or make it go through the tunnel. But with tunneling via ssh, and fixing your firefox / IE to use the proxy socks 5… You cannot be more secure than that.
Plus, it is a great tool to sftp and terminal into your servers.
With bitvise, you can easily do tunneling and such. Here is a short guide from bitvise on how to do it:
http://www.bitvise.com/port-forwarding.html
This is what you can do with bitvise:
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Dynamic tunneling via integrated proxy supporting SOCKS4, SOCKS4A, SOCKS5 and HTTP CONNECT proxy tunneling protocols. Configure your applications to connect to target hosts through Tunnelier’s proxy, and no manual tunneling rules need be configured.
How to set up programs for dynamic tunneling: Firefox, IE; with these settings in Tunnelier.
- Port forwarding settings can be saved to and loaded from a profile. One can maintain multiple complex tunneling configurations without having to manually enter parameters before each session.
- Tunnelier minimizes its presence by displaying only a system tray icon when running in the background. If an error is encountered while the program is minimized, the icon reflects that.
- Server-side forwarding: with WinSSHD and Tunnelier, a server and multiple clients can be set up so that all port forwarding rules are configured centrally at the server, without requiring any client-side setting updates. The SSH clients only need to be configured once, and port forwarding rules can easily be changed when necessary.
- After an SSH session is established, any external application can be launched automatically.
- If an SSH session is interrupted, Tunnelier can automatically reconnect to the server.
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Morad Rayyan is IT professional specialized in New Media development and has special interest in networking "routing" as well as programming.
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