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Jonathan Morton wrote:

> >May be it is time to release VNC with built-in encryption for all
> >platforms? Especially when patches are already posted for some? I tried
> >to use VNC with ssh to view a Linux desktop from a Mac, and it was SLOW.
> >Someone on this list said it's the Mac's multitasking implementation,
> >but with MacOS X delayed by 6 months, and all the hoops one has to jump
> >through to configure VNC and ssh together, AND the tools available to
> >hack VNC, isn't it a logical and necessary addition?
>
> I think it's definitely time AT&T started integrating some of our patches
> in the main development tree, if at all possible.  SSH is just one of the
> things that would be incredibly useful there.
>
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> from:     Jonathan "Chromatix" Morton
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> uni-mail: j.d.morton "at" lancaster.ac.uk
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If there was SSH integrated into VNC, it could limit VNC within the unix
platform...   otoh, having the sources would make the cross-platform issue
to not be a problem.  Certainly the RFB could use a popular crypto extention
such as PGP...

Chris Slater
slaterc "at" post.uwstout.edu

"Windows -- the Original Denial of Service (DOS)"
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