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Tunnelling data over SSH with Putty

16 December 2013
Anthony Mills
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An SSH tunnel is used to route unencrypted traffic through an encrypted SSH channel. Its comes in handy for routing traffic over untrusted or hostile networks as the data is encrypted to maintain privacy and prevent eavesdropping. It is also very handy in for bypassing firewall restrictions where the usage…

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Encypting Diectories With eCryptfs

14 December 2013
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eCryptfs is an encrypted file system that works at the file system level. In this post I am going to cover the basic usage of eCryptfs and some of the situations you may want to think about using a encrypted file system. What is an encrypted file system? File system…

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