I spent a week out of town. I checked in advance about broadband access where we would be staying. Yes, wireless.
So, I have my Dell Inspiron on a public wireless connection without WPA or WEP. What if I need to connect into a system at the church or do anything important on an unencrypted connection?
I have been trying out Hamachi for a while and thought this would be the perfect use. I installed it on a few different computers and registered a private encrypted virtual network.
Hamachi creates a software network connection in your Network Settings area and assignes you another IP address. You call into their server and once you join up there it connects you with the other computers signed into your network and you access them with their Hamachi IP addresses.
I was able to use Remote Desktop, view remote directories, transfer files securely. It is a bit slower since you are going through a software connection to do the encryption and then through the regular network adapter.
I have tried to use it for logging into a remote domain, but I have not been able to get it to connect before login so while I can register to the domain it does no good.
There are a several references to Hamachi on the GRC Security Now podcast.
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