Safe Passage SSH VPN for securing wireless connections?

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scotty@cm.math.uiuc.edu (joe briggs) wrote in message news:<e95a3792.0406211025.7058432e@posting.google.com>...

Some people have asked me about this client. There is no need for a
proxy with this app. It tunnels all traffic as well as DNS.

> I'm currently using Safe Passage (see http://www.vastrange.com) for
> both my VPN from home to work (and work to home). It uses SSH to
> tunnel my traffic through my SSH server at work (and I'm running open
> SSH at home so I can get stuff off of my desktop at home).
>
> Seems like SSH would be a great way to secure wireless connections
> too. Does this kind of thing solve the supposed wireless security
> problem? Or is it something else?
>
> --Scoots

Archived from groups: alt.internet.wireless,comp.security.unix,comp.security.misc (More info?)

joe briggs wrote:
>
> I'm currently using Safe Passage (see http://www.vastrange.com) for
> both my VPN from home to work (and work to home). It uses SSH to
> tunnel my traffic through my SSH server at work (and I'm running open
> SSH at home so I can get stuff off of my desktop at home).
>
> Seems like SSH would be a great way to secure wireless connections
> too. Does this kind of thing solve the supposed wireless security
> problem? Or is it something else?
>
> --Scoots

Any proper VPN solves the problems of wireless security, except for the
obvious one: denial of service.

You have to make sure that the attacker can't get control of the client,
i.e. at least you need a firewall to protect it against attacks that
arrive below the VPN layer.

-- Lassi

Archived from groups: alt.internet.wireless,comp.security.unix,comp.security.misc (More info?)

scotty@cm.math.uiuc.edu (joe briggs) wrote in
news:e95a3792.0406211025.7058432e@posting.google.com:

> Seems like SSH would be a great way to secure wireless connections
> too. Does this kind of thing solve the supposed wireless security
> problem? Or is it something else?

Nothing new, a lot of corporate wireless networks are secured via some form
of VPN.

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