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Jul 19, 2005View in Crawl 4
Ooh and I nearly forgot. SSH with compression turned on generally seems snappier for me than direct connections to VNC ports. I haven't analyzed what each setup actually does to tell you exactly what it is that's faster, but I've had a lot better luck with it. It may be that VNCs usual transmissions are fairly simple and compress easily which would negate the key's data, but it's faster in my particular setup.
Wow, I came into this digg expecting a link to UltraVNC to be the first response...its the LAST!Using UltraVNC with one of the manyh encryption plugins is safe enough. I'd choose a plugin that requires a 128-bit key to be more safe.
Straight from <a class="user" href="http://www.tightvnc.com/faq.html#howsecure">http://www.tightvnc.com/faq.html#howsecure</a>How secure is TightVNC?Although TightVNC encrypts VNC passwords sent over the net, the rest of the traffic is sent as is, unencrypted (for password encryption, VNC uses a DES-encrypted challenge-response scheme, where the password is limited by 8 characters, and the effective DES key length is 56 bits). So using TightVNC over the Internet can be a security risk. To solve this problem, we plan to work on built-in encryption in future versions of TightVNC.In the mean time, if you need real security, we recommend installing OpenSSH, and using SSH tunneling for all TightVNC connections from untrusted networks.
maciaklJul 19, 2005
Hmm... So it seems that this guy just discovered ssh tunelling and cygwin. Good for him :P
Closed AccountJul 19, 2005
Ooh and I nearly forgot. SSH with compression turned on generally seems snappier for me than direct connections to VNC ports. I haven't analyzed what each setup actually does to tell you exactly what it is that's faster, but I've had a lot better luck with it. It may be that VNCs usual transmissions are fairly simple and compress easily which would negate the key's data, but it's faster in my particular setup.
insanumJul 19, 2005
Here is another digg that explains accessing your music collection over SSH. Both show the coolness of tunnelingthrough SSH.<a class="user" href="http://digg.com/software/_Access_a_home_based_digital_music_collection_from_anywhere%E2%80%A6">http://digg.com/software/_Access_a_home_based_digital_music_collection_from_anywhere%E2%80%A6</a>
dodgev83Jul 19, 2005
Wow, I came into this digg expecting a link to UltraVNC to be the first response...its the LAST!Using UltraVNC with one of the manyh encryption plugins is safe enough. I'd choose a plugin that requires a 128-bit key to be more safe.
aardwolfJul 19, 2005
If your interested in some more indept info on using SSH with VNC you might want to check out these helpful tutorials, specifically the one from AT&T research:<a class="user" href="http://www.uk.research.att.com/archive/vnc/sshvnc.html">http://www.uk.research.att.com/archive/vnc/sshvnc.html</a><a class="user" href="http://www.shebeen.com/vnc_ssh/">http://www.shebeen.com/vnc_ssh/</a><a class="user" href="http://pigtail.net/LRP/vnc/">http://pigtail.net/LRP/vnc/</a>Enjoy!
bithammerJul 20, 2005
Straight from <a class="user" href="http://www.tightvnc.com/faq.html#howsecure">http://www.tightvnc.com/faq.html#howsecure</a>How secure is TightVNC?Although TightVNC encrypts VNC passwords sent over the net, the rest of the traffic is sent as is, unencrypted (for password encryption, VNC uses a DES-encrypted challenge-response scheme, where the password is limited by 8 characters, and the effective DES key length is 56 bits). So using TightVNC over the Internet can be a security risk. To solve this problem, we plan to work on built-in encryption in future versions of TightVNC.In the mean time, if you need real security, we recommend installing OpenSSH, and using SSH tunneling for all TightVNC connections from untrusted networks.
sgt_shizzoDec 14, 2005
Yep... UltraVNC is great. The encryption plugin is very easy to implement. Truly the cream of the crop!