the current standing is that VNC should be tunneled via ssh
Thanks,
Ron DuFresne
On Tue, 8 May 2001, Eric Johnson wrote:
> Our outside network expert thinks that Microsoft's PPTP is
> extraordinarily insecure. Yet, he uses VNC extensively to monitor
> systems. I found out today that he has installed it on at least one
> of our computers.
>
> I tried VNC a couple of years ago and concluded that it did not
> seem secure enough to use and so I haven't done anything with it
> since then.
>
> I'm not saying that PPTP is safe, but that the vulnerabilities are
> fairly limited as far as I can tell and that to me, it certainly appears
> safer (and more useful) than VNC.
>
> Does anyone know the relative safety of VNC and PPTP? Or is
> there any way to adequately compare them?
>
> Eric Johnson
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