On Sat, Jan 02, 2010 at 08:13:56PM +0100, Martin Koegler wrote: > I'm looking for a VNC variant with builtin encryption support (no SSH > tunnel) supporting Unix/Java/Windows. > > tightvnc/realvnc are "dead" - the only relevant successor seems to be > tigervnc, which lacks encryption support. > > So, are there any (concrete) plans for adding encryption support? > > If not, I'll probably port the TLS/X509 tunnling type patches from > http://e9925248.users.sourceforge.net/ to tigervnc. > > One year ago, the biggest oposition against these patches was, that > they use gnutls and not NSS. I don't have enough knowlege about NSS > (and currently not enough time to aquire it) to port the patches to > NSS. So I'll stick with gnutls. > > I intend to publish the resulting version. I see two options: > 1) merge them into the tigervnc code base > 2) resurrect vencrypt project and publish them there > > I would like to avoid option 2 - there are enough VNC variants out > there; but if gnutls is a no-go, I will have to go this way. > > Merging a gnutls based version does not mean, that tighervnc has to > stick with gnutls forever. If there is somebody really interessted in > NSS, he can port tigervnc from gnutls to NSS. > > Comments?
Hi Martin, since last year I changed my verdict about gnutls based encryption. Main reason is simple, there is no manpower to implement NSS based solution right now. But there is one issue that bothers me - would you like to add gnutls to tigervnc repository? I really dislike this approach, I would rather see (Windows) users downloading gnutls from http://josefsson.org/gnutls4win. Regards, Adam -- Adam Tkac, Red Hat, Inc. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Tigervnc-devel mailing list Tigervnc-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tigervnc-devel
