VNCrack (just so you know it exists)

[Vladimir Shapovalov]

> Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 22:12:32 -0500
> From: Da LiNuXnUt <slaterc "at" post.uwstout.edu>
> If there was SSH integrated into VNC, it could limit VNC within the unix
> platform...

Why would it if encryption was implemented in both servers and viewers?

> Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 22:49:26 -0500 (CDT)
> From: Dan Fulbright <vnc-list "at" okra.org>
> 
> Just to avoid confusion here, you don't need to patch VNC to use SSH or
> Zebedee, for example.  You just have to set up the tunnels before you
> start the out-of-the-box VNC viewer.  And SSH does lots of other cool
> stuff, like provide you with a secure, remote shell, and X11 forwarding.

No, you don't HAVE to patch, but there are two issues: setting up the
tunnel (you have to do it by hand every time your port number changes),
and the productivity issue (as I said, the current MacOS doesn't handle
two or more processes very efficiently, and there are probably other
platforms for which the tunnelling can be problematic). Not that SSH is
bad, it's just would be more efficient to build encryption right into VNC.

Vlad
-- 
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