Doing secure tunneling in the VNC free edition

[William Hooper]

John Favaro wrote:
> The discussion on being hacked during VNC sessions and solving it with
> secure tunneling prompted me to try to find out how to do it (with the
> free version). I'm using Windows XP. I couldn't really figure it out. I
> could only find OpenSSH, which is Unix,

OpenSSH can be used on Microsoft platforms via Cygwin.  Some googling will
turn up links[1].  If you don't need the full Cygwin environment,
something like copSSH[2] is probably what you want.

> and there is Putty, which is
> Windows but I
> couldn't understand whether and how that is used in VNC.

PuTTY is an SSH client.  You can using it to connect to the SSH server and
create your tunnels[3].

> I wasn't able to
> find a how-to guide in the VNC documentation

It's there[4].

> Is there somebody here who has actually done it in this context and can
> give me a list of steps to do? Thanks for any guidance here.

Another option you might want to look at is a more Microsoft centric
tunnel.    Zebedee[5] even uses VNC as an example.  Stunnel[6] is also
pretty simple.


[1] - http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=windows+openssh+server
[2] - http://itefix.no/copssh
[3] - http://home.highertech.net/~john/Putty-Tunnel/putty-tunnel.html
[4] - http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/DTG/attarchive/vnc/sshvnc.html
[5] - http://www.winton.org.uk/zebedee/
[6] - http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1677

-- 
William Hooper