[PLUG] Encrypting Proxy Authentication credentials?

Josh Orchard josh at emediatedesigns.com
Mon Aug 30 17:17:02 UTC 2004


>
>
> Is it possible to encrypt the user/pass to Squid?
>
> For example, let's say your company has a Squid proxy and each user is
> allowed
> or denied Internet access using a login/pass.  Sending your login/pass
> to Squid
> uses Basic Authentication, however, which can be easily decoded.
>
> Also, if others have a better solution for authenticating users for
> web access,
> I'd love to here.
> Thanks,
> ~M

Why Can't you do SSL to the proxy server?

Josh




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