On 11 Apr 2009, at 10:13, Konstantinos Agouros wrote:
... the MAC-Screenshare VNC Client gave a warning about 'not so
good authentication' so it seems apple might after all have a
proprietary
extension in there.
It's worth mentioning that the original GPL, AT&T sponsored VNC
offered no encryption (except perhaps as https in the browser-based
Java version?). The last I heard was that work had ceased upon it,
following the termination of AT&T sponsorship, but that some of the
authors had started their own company selling VNC-based solutions.
Their new products are used by at least one company that sells KVM-IP
switches, but I believe they are all closed & proprietary. I think
more than one OSS / 3rd-party VNC project have, as a consequence,
added encryption, but I don't believe that any of them are
compatible. :(
It really is a shame, IMO. VNC brought us cross-platform
screensharing, but without encryption one is reluctant to use it
outside the LAN.
Stroller.
