Secure VNC

[Wayne Throop]

: > http://faq.gotomyvnc.com/fom-serve/cache/28.html
: But that page says that VNC communicates in "plain text" and I've been
: told repeatedly that it is using some sort of X protocol that is not
: plain text.  It's not encrypted, but it isn't plain text either. 

I didn't see anybody else mention it, but it's worth noting
that the use of "plaintext" here is a cryptogaphic technical term,
meaning "the unencrypted form", as contrasted with "ciphertext".
The use in "data exchange [] is in plaintext" does not imply
that the data will be interpreted as ascii characters.
That is, it's not refering to the MIME type text/plain.

      "technical term" is a technical term which states that
          a specific word in a specific context has its meaning
             distorted beyond all recognition


Wayne Throop   throopw "at" sheol.org