Recently, I needed to access my home network from behind some restrictive networks. The only ports that were open was 80 and 443 (SSL), oh and I almost forgot to mention its through an internal proxy only. Yeah, not just any simple proxy such as squid. This proxy have the ability to terminate SSL traffic to inspect the contents and even actively make security decisions such as blocking the site if its cert is self signed. So this is where the problem lies. I usually connect back home using HTTPS and it works fine at most places. But this time round, it doesn't let me through unless my SSL cert back home is signed by some trusted CA. Of course I'm not willing to spend hundreds of dollars to get the SSL cert signed.