TCP/IP through HTTP Proxy?

[Haseldow]

Hi,

Does anyone have experience using TCP/IP through a HTTP Proxy (corckscrew, ssltunnel.pl, etc...)?

What I'm looking for is to use SSH through a proxy server. I don't want attract too attention. What I mean by this is that I do not want to flood the log files and arouse too much suspicion. I think if it used SSL, then it might not flood the logs?

Any pointers/previous experience/etc greatly appreciated.

-Haseldow

[Gertrude]

Explain exactly what it is that you are trying to occomplish, and maybe I or someone else could help.

[Haseldow]

I'll try to draw a picture :)


MyBox--SSH-->{corkscrew}-->HTTP Proxy-->{internet}-->{corkscrew}--SSH-->MyHomeBox


MyBox is the PC I'm sitting in front of now. From here I wish to do a SSH connection to MyHomeBox, which is a server I have home. The only thing is that only HTTP connections are allowed outside and through a Proxy server.

corkscrew (or similar software) enables me to make a SSH connection through a HTTP Proxy. But I do not wish to flood the Proxy server logs.

Links:
Corckscrew (http://www.agroman.net/corkscrew/)
ssltunnel.pl (http://www.hornby.org.uk/)

I would like to know if any of thease leave telltale signs on the Proxy or is there ones that work "invisibly". Hope this cleared things a bit.

-Haseldow

[Gertrude]

It really depends on the proxy your going throgh. If it is set up to log certain kinds of activity, then its most likely going to be getting loged, and there is not a whole lot you can do besides that, because I can only assume that this proxy is not under your controll, your not going to be able to do anything on that end. Just dont keep up long connections, and dont transfer large ammounts data back and fourth.

[bwkaz]

There is, after all, a reason that this proxy was put in place...

Don't try to defeat other peoples' security measures. Whether or not you agree with them -- if you don't, talk to the admins involved, reasonably, and maybe they'll let you do what you're trying to do.