Re: Very basic protocol question

Dave J Woolley wrote:

> > From: Juan Carlos Castro y Castro [SMTP:jcastro@appi.com.br]
> >
> > So much for that idea. All right then, is there any other software which
> > works the way I'm looking for, which is, accepting nonencrypted
> > connections
> > and making SSL-encrypted connections to the final destination?
> >
> Such software does exist and has been used to get around
> the restrictions of the GPL on the Lynx browser (an SSL
> Lynx cannot be redistributed because it contains code which
> is not royalty free for all users). I'd suggest looking at
> the Lynx site http://lynx.browser.org/)

Thanks for the tip, I'll check.

> I can't really imagine commercial products to do this, as it
> is basically breaching the security of the protocol between
> the proxy and the true client. Most SSL based services would
> never authorise the use of their service with such software,
> although they may not be able to tell and your only problem
> would be you couldn't sue them if there was a breach of security.
> Theoretically they could sue you if they felt that your actions
> had breached their security.

I intend to run this on local, physically safe networks only (with a gateway
to the Internet which would be the "insecure" proxy). My problem is, the final
clients are dedicated machines with not enough memory/performance to run SSL.