Compression

[Alan Cox]

> > Run it over the ssh secure shell and you get it compressed and encrypted
> > for free
> 
> That'd be great.  How do you do it?  Even with ssh, I could see a
> compression algorithm being built into VNC.  As noted earlier, modem (and
> other slow links) users would benefit greatly from it.  Anyone know how to
> implement it?

Ssh does it for you, or put a seperate compressing proxy into the system.
Thats how X handles it normally. It avoids the single thread/compress delay
problem in X - eg with dxpc.

For ssh you tell it to do a port redirect when you run ssh -> machine. See
the ssh manual page as it varies by OS how to do it (actually the commercial
windows ssh may still be lacking it - it used to).