How to Get Secure Internet Connection With SSL Proxy

ssl proxyIf you're wondering how to get secure internet connection, it's easy. There are tools you can use to protect yourself from villains in cyberspace, such as snoops, hackers, big brother and even your school or office admin. For a reasonable price, you can use an SSL proxy when you surf online. This kind of proxy combines encryption and IP masking for anonymous and secure browsing.

What is SSL proxy?

First, SSL stands for Secure Socket Layer. It is the de facto standard technology for data encryption over the Internet. To use SSL, the user's browser and the web server he or she is viewing must establish a secure connection. They identify each other with their respective SSL certificates, which bear the name and other information about their owners. Data is then encoded by the sender using the recipient's "public key." The recipient of the data then decrypts the data using its "private key." SSL ensures that whatever you transfer between a browser and web server is secure. Even if someone were to intercept it, they would see only meaningless code since it's encrypted.

A proxy server, on the other hand, is a mediating server between a browser and web server. If you use an anonymous type, it will disguise your IP address (your "ID number" online) and other information about you so you can surf without leaving any traces of yourself in cyberspace.

An SSL proxy combines these two strategies for the ultimate anonymous and secure browsing. Your data is encrypted, you access a secure web server (with 'https' in the URL bar), and you are also disguised behind an anonymous third party server. This protects your privacy on one hand, and wards off security threats on the other.

Many security and privacy threats abound online. Common ones include: identity theft, credit card fraud, tracking or stalking, improper data access and monitoring by third parties, unreasonable network restrictions, oppression of freedom of speech, spyware, adware, malware, trojans and viruses, phishing and pharming and various other security concerns.

Conclusion:

Most web-proxy services or anonymizers are not free, but many do offer partial service for free or a free trial period, which might work for you depending on what type of firewall your school or office uses.

One of the most common uses for anonymizers is to unblock myspace, or unblock sites which are deemed unsuitable for viewer ship by local ISP (Internet Service Providers).

After carrying out several tests on free proxy anonymizers versus paid VPN providers, I would recommend staying clear of the free proxy providers due to the dangers of using them and the generally poor data transfer speed and opt to pay for a strong VPN provider that will ensure quick and reliable performance.

Proxy Server

It is a server that acts as a connecting location and allows network service to connect to other services in the network cloud. It could be responsible for processing your request to connect to a file, webpage or any other service while the proxy server itself could be located anywhere in the world.

Similarly, the recipient would be oblivious of the source of the request as the only thing visible would be the request coming from the proxy server, therefore, it's origin would be unknown. In a nutshell it allows for an indirect connection to be established between other network services.