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Posted by Tom Stiller on October 8, 2006, 10:42 am
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> Tom Stiller wrote:
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> > Since VNC traffic is not encrypted, exposing a computer to the web is
> > risky unless one takes some steps to safeguard the connection.
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> Are you sure about that? As I said above, I use Ultr@VNC, and it has
> support for MSRC4, which while a pain to set up, seems to be secure
> enough. The Web interface also exchanges keys between computers (at
> least IE puts up a warning) when you first log on to the server.
I must admit that I know nothing about Ultr@VNC, but for me it was a
trivial matter to tunnel the VNC connections through SSH, which I had
already set up to enable secure remote access to my computers for other
purposes.
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Tom Stiller
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