SSH tunneling is a nice way of creating an encrypted tunnel. Essentially with an SSH client program you setup the tunneling rules and then authenticate and logon to the remote SSH host. After establishing the connection you can use any of your existing programs to tunnel inside the SSH session.
It requires a bit of setup but works very nicely and is relatively 'secure' from end to end. Best of all there are free or open source programs to accomplish this. Just remember that encrypted communication does not replace good security practices for keeping the host machines patched and plugged. www.openssh.org www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA002416/teraterm.html -Jimmy -----Original Message----- From: scott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 10:28 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: remote desktop question hi, this might be a stupid question but, is there any encryption used with remote desktop. also, if there is not is there any products (free or low cost) that i can use to protect my remote desktop connections, such as vpn, and what is the best way to set it up? thanks Scott
