Ssh tunnel for security web access in insecure web connection

Use ssh tunnel is a good way to get web security in public
wireless connection. I did this experiment tonight.

Set up sshd service in my Arch

• Allow sshd in /etc/hosts.allow, check /etc/hosts.deny
• Choose port number other than 22 for security reason
• Choose protocol version 2
• add it as daemon at /etc.rc.conf
• start it =/etc/rc.d/sshd restart

Configure client

• For linux, simply run : ssh -D 5555 xxx@ip  -p port

• putty setting (you can download putty here)
  At tunnel section, Add a source port,e.g.5555, select Auto and Dynamic

• Firefox setting (you can download firefox here)
  add 127.0.0.1:5555 as socket 5. If you want DNS to be translated
  securely, in firefox, input about:config, then change to
  network.proxy.socks_remotedns=true

For speed up settings, check

out wiki.archlinux.org and search ssh