On Fri, 2003-12-05 at 12:08, Casey T. Deccio wrote:
> > I really just want the most secure gui-type remote 
> > connection available.
> 
> I'm not sure how secure VNC is.

The VNC password is not sent plaintext. That's really the extend of
security. All the display information is sent without any encryption.
One of my ideas for a neat project is a VNC sniffer that listens
passively to VNC traffic and displays it surreptitiously.

If you desire security, I recommend as others have stated using SSh to
tunnel VNC. I recommend PuTTY for a Windows SSH client. Neither PuTTY
nor the VNC viewer has to be "installed", and both are quite small.

Corey



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