ChromiVNC: long auth in chromivnc

[Jonathan Morton]

>I can't mail you for some reason (your MX is extremely fragile from my
>end), but here will do anyway.

Which address?  Try the one in my sig.

>I'm going through and adding non-reversible SHA1 password support to
>TightVNC and I notice you already use "3" to mean "long authentication"
>in ChromiVNC 3.4.

>How widely is this used? I don't mind pulling it in so we have
>cross-compatibility, but realistically, reversible passwords are not
>best practice.

I don't know of any client-side implementations - I don't even 
remember if I fully documented it.  It was one of the things I had in 
progress when I ran out of time to work on it.  I think the 
server-side code is complete and functional.

For compatibility with deployed ChromiVNC, you'd best adopt a 
different number than 3, but otherwise I wouldn't worry about it if 
your scheme is better.  If you think it has enough merit to be 
further implemented, go ahead!

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