>> You can't do this.  That's kind of the point about SSH tunnels.  If
>> you could set them up automatically, they would be completely
>> ineffective at authentication.
>
>????
>
>I might have misunderstood, I don't use SSH very much, but from an
>encryption-only standpoint (Using VNC's own authentication, which would go
>through the SSH tunnel too, so we don't have to worry about the security
>problems recently posted), SSH should be simple and easy to implement,
>right?
>
>I understand that a lot more may be involved if authentication is the name
>of the game, but at least for my uses, I only really want/need encryption.

The security advisory posted the other day was about authentication
vulnerabilities.  Hmm.  I'd like to see if/how SSH gets around the type of
attack posted in that advisory...

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