# Secure connection to a remote Bitcoin Core instance

**URL:** <https://forums.counterparty.io/t/secure-connection-to-a-remote-bitcoin-core-instance/1661>\
**Category:** Server\
**Created:** [November 21, 2015, 12:17pm UTC](https://forums.counterparty.io/t/secure-connection-to-a-remote-bitcoin-core-instance/1661 "2015-11-21T12:17:24Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 21, 2015, 12:17pm UTC](https://forums.counterparty.io/t/secure-connection-to-a-remote-bitcoin-core-instance/1661/1 "2015-11-21T12:17:24Z")

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There was a question about encrypting RPC connections between Counterparty Server and Bitcoin Core.  
This could be useful in case several people wanted to share a cloud-hosted instance of Bitcoin Core with addrindex patch.

autossh may be a good approach for that. Each user could have a different user account on the target machine while Bitcoin Core addrindex would run under a separate account.  
[http://www.ubuntugeek.com/automatically-restart-ssh-sessions-and-tunnels-using-autossh.html](http://www.ubuntugeek.com/automatically-restart-ssh-sessions-and-tunnels-using-autossh.html)