Using encrypted channels to communicate with squid proxy server

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We can use 

https_port 8081 cert=/etc/squid/squid.pem

in 'squid.conf' to allow clients to connect to proxy using SSL, where 'squid.pem' can ge generated as explained at Openssl


On the client side we can use stunnel to tunnel all browser plain-text traffic over SSL to proxyserver, port 8081. Sample stunnel service configuration is 

	[facultyproxy]
	accept=8080
	client=yes
	connect=<proxy-ip-or-fqdn>:8081


We can add above section to '/etc/stunnel/stunnel.conf' file and run stunnel using 'stunnel /etc/stunnel/stunnel.conf' so that stunnel listens on port 8080 on localhost and forwards all incoming connections to proxy server on port 8081.


We can also add following options, if we have CA certificate and we want to defy man-in-the-middle attacks via other self-signed certificates. 

	CAfile=/etc/pki/CA/private/ca.crt
	verify=3


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