Secure Tunnel

[cube]

Hi,

I would like to set up some secure tunnel. Something like:

Internet- -DSL-[Office] (((.wifi-[Home]

So, I have computer in my office running on a DSL (router) and I need to acces it via VNC and SocksCap (Socks Puppet on Office's PC). But I don't know if it's secure to do it just without any security measures (so far I found some SSH or PuTTY things, but don't really get them).

Basically, I need SocksCap to be able to browse the Internet with the office's IP. And VNC to control that same PC.

I'm not sure if I'll use wifi ISP or microwave ISP yet (Btw, which one is better/safer/stabiler?)

Thanks for any ideas.

[wimiadmin]

Does your work have a VPN server?

You could VPN in to your office server and then once on their network, RDP to your work desktop.

There could be other methods of connecting securely. Can you tell me what you're wanting to accomplish by doing this? Might be able to give you better advise if we can see the big picture.

[cube]

Yes I can put anything in to my work PC.

I also have access to the network (or router). It's like private office...

Why I want it like this is that I don't trust my (future) wifi provider enought to do my work directly via them. I guess they have shared IP (with lot of people on it) and I also need public IP. Who knows if the aren't sniffing stuffs ...
Second problem is that I have only those two ISP in my home area.

Accessing online sites, + bank accounts (which I don't like to access from any ISP, especially wifi) etc...
(Plus surfing in free time, and/or playing multiplayer games - not sure if I can play on shared IP, I had it once before and one user did spam stuff and after that I was logged as spammer too)

I'm not sure how laggy it would be though, but I hope not too much. I tried VPN+SocksCap set up and it was quite fine (but not secured).

[wimiadmin]

RDP would be fine in this instance. (Remote Desktop)

If you RDP to your computer at work, your ISP will only "see" screen shot data being transferred from your work computer to you. All data such as bank account information etc. is being transferred from your work computer to the requested web page. All you're really seeing are screen shots of the requested data....and that's all your ISP will see.

A VPN is a secure connection...however data is not really encrypted by default. Here's a link to enable data encryption on a win2k3 server. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/l.../cc778013.aspx

SSH I believe is more of a command prompt only type of connection.

As far as lag goes for gaming, each layer of security you add will slow the connection down. But you're right, an ISP can share one single public IP with many users. That sucks for all the users if they need a public IP. Can you get a "business" account through your ISP? I have a business account with our ISP and we have 5 static IPs.

[cube]

I can ask for business Internet, that's a very good idea.

My point is I don't like when somebody stare at my screen, behind my back or remotelly, or even ISP. (When it's some stranger) Due to work with sensitive info (clients and so on) and I'm lazy to travel every day to my office .
(not really, but recent health problems don't allow me to do so)..

For example I could use that special (business) static IP for gaming. Gaming would be the last important thing anyway (just was curious about it too)
And for the rest ... Need to make some plan.

By the way, can be that socks puppet and sockscap encrypted too ?

[wimiadmin]

I'm not familiar with sockspuppet or socks cap.

If you're worried about someone looking over your shoulder.....these laptop privacy screens work great!

[cube]

That 3M filter is really cool

Btw, sockspuppet and socks cap works like:
You install sockspuppet on the Machine1 and socks cap on the Machine2. Now, you can use the Machine1 as a proxy server for Machine2 (or any other machines which have socks cap installed and know the IP and port of Machine1). Very easy to use and free, small app. You can also drop selected applications on the Machine2 to that socks cap and only those will be affected.