On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 16:51:59 -0500, Brian Chase wrote in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>Alejandro Lopez-Valencia wrote: > > And >> that's the reason why I suggested TightVNC, performance is acceptable >> with a 56K modem link, and it defaults to using SSH tunneling, so for >> practical purposes you obtain a cheap VPN. >> >Are you sure of this statement? The reading I have done on TightVNC >tells me it encrypts passwords only and doesn't have any SSH >capabilities. I'd be happier if I were not correct, but I'd like to read >some documentation proving me wrong to confirm it. > I was thinking of the Unix version, which can be integrated with SSH to do encrypted port tunneling by default. The Windows server is weaker in this respect and requires a lot more hand-holding. There, compile the Unix version of the server under Cygwin and we are on-topic again. :-) As Ross Boulet has pointed out, encrypted port forwarding is a feature of SSH and can be used to create tunnels for any other TCP/IP protocol; or you could create a SSL tunnel with stunnel. What makes TightVNC suitable for tunneling over an encrypted channel is its data compression protocol (JPEG), which is much better than the one used by SSH (zlib). -- Alejandro López-Valencia http://dradul.tripod.com/ [...] every educated man is a theologian, and he doesn't need faith to be one. (J.L. Borges) -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
