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Hi guys
I bought a vpn service from witopia, which works great as I am living in asia now. but being the noob i am i didnt realise that it only comes with shared IP addresses.
So I rented a vps server, and setup squid proxy with its own static IP address and due to being a cheap server i couldnt install Openvpn due to kernal issues (I did read there is a solution but it would have taken alot of work)

The problem with squid is I only enter proxy details in my webbrowser so my information isnt encrypted to my server. I then turned on my openvpn and used my proxy with openvpn (witopia). It worked great and when i checked whatismyipaddress dot com, it gave my static IP address.

So my question is if i use openvpn (witopia) with my squid proxy is the information getting encrypted to my server through the vpn tunnel?

Thanks in advance

with your vpn provider witopia traffic encrypted from your pc to the witopia server; traffic is decrypted there and forwarded out onto the internet; if you then access a squid server traffic between the witopia server to the squid server is plain text;

if all you need is HTTP/HTTPS access then I wouldn't even use OpenVPN; I'd set up a SOCKS server on the VPS box and reroute all web browser traffic via that.

janjust wrote:with your vpn provider witopia traffic encrypted from your pc to the witopia server; traffic is decrypted there and forwarded out onto the internet; if you then access a squid server traffic between the witopia server to the squid server is plain text;

if all you need is HTTP/HTTPS access then I wouldn't even use OpenVPN; I'd set up a SOCKS server on the VPS box and reroute all web browser traffic via that.

Hi thanks for your reply
I should have mentioned i use multiple IP addresses. Thats why I was using squid as it lets me choose the IP address i want. If I use putty and ssh server only, I can only browse with the default IP address, then trying to setup the IP tables gets a bit complicated..