Zebedee was (I think) originally designed to offer an encrypted port based tunnel for vnc amongst other apps. Ive found it extreemly useful over the years, and far more stable/flexible/featureful than the ssh alternative, especially over poor and dialup connections.
zebedee + vnc is classic unix - each doing its own task ... well BillK On Sat, 2009-04-11 at 12:11 +0100, Stroller wrote: > 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. > -- William Kenworthy <bi...@iinet.net.au> Home in Perth!
