SECURE PERSONAL SERVER SYSTEM AND METHOD

摘要

A provider computer announces content to the provider computer and establishes a secure connection to a VPN server. Requests for the content are received in one protocol (HTTPS) from the consumer computer and forwarded to the VPN server in a less secure protocol (HTTP) by a protocol conversion proxy, which then forwards the request to the provider computer. A public URL and secure URL may be associated with the same content. The public URL is announced to a consumer computer. A public server receives the public URL and returns the secure URL, which consumer computer uses to establish a secure connection to the provider computer. Upon the secure URL being compromised, a new secure URL is associated with the public URL. The source IP addresses of requests for the public and secure URLs may be compared to determine whether the secure URL is compromised.

主权项

1. A method for providing access to content on a first computer, the method comprising:
establishing, by a server system, an encrypted connection with the first computer, the connection server being enabled to provide reverse connections to the first computer; receiving, by the server system, from a second computer a request for the content on the first computer, the request being performed using a first type of communication protocol; and converting, by the server system, using a protocol conversion module the request for the content to a translated request having a second type of communication protocol, where the first type of communication protocol at least partially encrypts exchanged data using an encryption key available to the protocol conversion module whereas the second type of communication protocol does not encrypt at least some parts of the translated request for which corresponding parts of the request for content are encrypted by the first type of communication protocol.