Useful Linux apps you've probably never heard of
Corkscrew What corkscrew does is allow you to tunnel ssh connections over a http proxy very easily. As far as admins of the http proxy can see this is encrypted traffic which is most likely anssl connection to a web server(the server you have sshed to), you could in theory ( :D ), create a socks proxy using an ssh tunnel that is corkscrewing over a http proxy. Then set your browser to use that socks proxy instead of the http proxy and thus encrypt all your traffic. I think you can use this with windows and cygwin tool but its probably easier to simply use putty as is has added support for this a while back. ...