08.08.07
spow — Secure POW
If you already have POW installed on your browser, you can use this.
I created a secure proxy for POW. Mac and Linux users can now use a
personal secure server. Windows is not yet ready. Here’s how to
install it.
Download and install openssl.
Download spow.
tar zxvf spow.tgz
cd release/
# For PPC Mac users
./spow
# Or for all other *nix users
make clean
./configure
make
./spow
Go to https://localhost:6674/ in Firefox.
I included a test certificate. Generate your own certificates using
release/gen3/genkey.sh included in the source.
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L said,
August 8, 2007 at 6:09 pm
Could you do something similar (instead) with an appropriate set of nginx configs?
~L
David Kellogg said,
August 8, 2007 at 8:06 pm
I just skimmed the nginx.net site. I’m not sure how the two would fit together. What configs are necessary?
Dave
Christian said,
October 2, 2007 at 1:56 am
I am not a very experienced Mac OS X user, neither a developer, but why do I have to install openssl once again? As far as I know openssl is already included in the default Mac OS X installation and even a newer version than the one spow references (dyld: Library not loaded: /sw/lib/libssl.0.9.6.dylib).
The man page entry for openssl already on my Mac says 0.9.7l. Does it work with this or the newest version or does it have to be 0.9.6?
The newest version is 0.9.8e and could be installed via DarwinPorts. Actually I have never compiled any tar package myself yet but instead opted for the DarwinPorts versions.
David Kellogg said,
October 2, 2007 at 8:02 am
I think if you run ./configure; make; make install, it should pick up on your choice of openssl.
Dave