Question

[James Weatherall]

Guys,

I'm afraid Erik is mistaken.  The same server authentication, session setup
and encryption are used regardless of the user authentication scheme, unless
dealing with legacy viewers/servers.

Regards,

Wez @ RealVNC Ltd.
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Erik Soderquist [mailto:esoderquist "at" mcstamp.com] 
> Sent: 30 March 2005 18:24
> To: Singh, Harjit (Mission Systems); James Weatherall; 
> vnc-list "at" realvnc.com
> Subject: RE: Question
> 
> I believe that depends on your authentication method. it is my
> understanding that windows authentication uses it's own encryption, so
> the session encryption would be a different encryption. with vnc's
> encryption, I can't see any reason to establish a new 
> encrypted channel,
> so I would assume it to use the same one. 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Singh, Harjit (Mission Systems) [mailto:Harjit.Singh "at" ngc.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 12:17
> To: Erik Soderquist; James Weatherall; vnc-list "at" realvnc.com
> Subject: RE: Question
> 
> Eric,
> Assuming encryption is used, is step three encryption link the same as
> in step 5 encryption or the encryption link is negotiated 
> again for step
> 5.
>  
> Harjit Singh