Re: Security of "Virtual Network Computer"

From: Dan Foster (dsfat_private)
Date: Tue Oct 12 1999 - 20:21:47 PDT

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    Hot Diggety! On a bright and sunny day, Mikael Olsson was rumored to have said..
    >
    > "How secure is VNC?" or
    [...snip...]
    > If you need to run VNC over an untrusted network: tunnel it through
    > something More Secure(tm) such as SSH or IPSec.
    
    There is already a SSH-ified VNC client available.
    
    http://www.mindbright.com/english/technology/products/mindvnc.html
    
    This (and its companion products, MindTunnel and MindTerm) is really more of a
    proof of concept example... but is there, along with source code under the
    GNU General Public License (GPL). (Side note: it uses RSA algorithms without
    a corresponding RSA license, so you might want to avoid it if this would
    cause you problems.)
    
    -Dan Foster
    Frontier Internet Administration Team
    Frontier Corporation, A Global Crossing Company
    



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