20 dec 2001 Status report
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Let us summarize what has been done and our plans for the future.
I. PRESENT STATE
The problem with slowing down, described in the previous report,
has been solved.
At present, we have:
1. The VNC traffic is being forwarded through a special connection
between two Kaboodle machines.
2. This connection is not the one Kaboodle has been using to its
own purposes and consequently the TCP port is different.
3. When forwarding the VNC traffic, encryption is applied using
the methods and the keys that Kaboodle has been using.
4. The tunneled VNC session is quite stable (no connection breaks)
and rather fast acting (just slightly slower than pure VNC
session).
II. IMMEDIATE TASKS
Here is a little bug. When the Kaboodle+VNC to Kaboodle+VNC
connection closes, the TCP port is not released. So next time the
connection is established, it must use a different port.
By the end of the year 2001 the following is to be done:
1. Fix the abovementioned bug.
2. In order to do it, as well as to make the code compact,
Kaboodle+VNC to Kaboodle+VNC MFC-based socket must be redesigned
like Kaboodle to VNC WinAPI-socket.
III. LONG-TERM PLANS
We can suggest the following direction of Kaboodle+VNC development:
1. Completion of the user interface.
2. Launching the VNC Server at Kaboodle start.
3. Retrofitting to the steel tube. It implies one of the two options
(variants 3A and 3B are mutually exclusive):
A. Update the implementation of Kaboodle CSocketTCPIP class so as to
(a) retain the support of Remote Connection functionality and (b)
ensure the support of intensive bilateral data streams required by
VNC tunneling (see the previous report for detail). The encryption
and key exchange solution are left unchanged.
B. Implementation of SSL/SSH tunneling including socket, encryption
and key exchange solutions.
TIMING
Variant 3A: about 2.5-3 months;
Variant 3B: we need another 2 weeks to estimate timing.
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