Take the 2-minute tour ×  I know of usual HTTP proxys and Socks
proxys (Socks 4 / Socks 5 - where the main difference as far as
I know is the support for DNS resolution via proxy).  Both
variants more or less "pass the data through" in its original
form. So if the target site is HTTPS encrypted, of course the
connection will be encrypted. Same goes for Socks proxys.
However what I would like to do is to encrypt the communication
between the proxy server and the client regardless whether the
communication between the proxy server and the target server is
secured or not.  The only software that comes to my mind which
does this is TOR (The onion router), however it does much more
and is not really what I want.  I am aware of VPN solutions.
However I would prefer something which does not need to be
configured on that layer of the OS (no extra devices, drivers,
software etc.). It would be good if it would be supported by
major browsers out of the box.  You may thing of the use case of
sitting on a very insecure n