Hi Richard, VNC Enterprise & Personal Editions are designed for use over untrusted and/or public networks, without requiring VPN or tunnelling technologies to be used.
VNC Free Edition uses challenge-response to authenticate to VNC Server, but does not encrypt session data. Regards, Wez @ RealVNC Ltd. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Sheasley > Sent: 22 May 2006 21:40 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Security on VNC connection and WiFi public access > > What are the issues of using the VNC viewer on a public > access network? Is > it only recommended if you have a VPN or similar encrypted > connection or > does VNC have settings to ensure the password and access info > is safe and > not available to snoopers? > > So far I have not connected very many times to a public > network for the > purpose of remoting into the office. Would there be any > differences in say > Ultra VNC or one of the other VNC versions out there? > > Richard Sheasley > Accurate Design Systems > _______________________________________________ > VNC-List mailing list > [email protected] > To remove yourself from the list visit: > http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [email protected] To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
