DoS attack VNC 4.0

Alex K. Angelopoulos aka "at" mvps.org
Tue Aug 31 20:48:01 2004


William Hooper wrote:

> I disagree.  Encryption is something best left to programs that
> specialize in encryption.  Why try to maintain your own codebase when
> there are other secure codebases out there that are easy to set up?
> Not to mention the ability to choose the one that best fits your needs
> (SSH is dead simple for *nix systems, stunnel or Zeebede is simple
> Windows based systems, etc.).

I tend to agree with William.  Reimplementing secure communication on  a 
tool-by-tool basis is needless multiplication of entities; over the long 
run, it tends to make secure communication less stable. A core shared 
subsystem is easier to maintain.