[PLUG] Encrypting Proxy Authentication credentials?

[Matt Alexander]

Quoting Josh Orchard <josh at emediatedesigns.com>:

> >
> >
> > 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?

Uhhh...  How would I go about that?