On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 05:15:12PM -0500, Chris Gokey wrote: > > I'd be interested in any feedback this group can offer, regarding best > encryption to use, best way to compress data, security concerns, etc.
Zlib compression is great, although it would be unnecessary if you use TightVNC with tight encoding or zlib encoding. AES or Blowfish are probably the best ciphers to use. The trusted 3rd party architecture (both ends initiate a connection to an intermediate host) is interesting, though more complicated than most people need. VNC already has a mechanism for dealing with servers that are behind firewalls which allow no incoming connections: the vncconnect program tells Xvnc to connect to a viewer that is listening at the other end (there is also a way to do this with WinVNC). However, your architecture would be particularly useful in a situation where neither the client nor the server allow incoming connections. I strongly recommend you get to know SSH: http://www.openssh.org/ If you are interested in continuing to learn-by-doing along these lines, a Java SSH2 implementation would be a great contribution to the community. There are SSH1 classes available, but open source SSH2 classes are sorely missing. Also, I noticed your download link is broken. It has "localhost" as the host name in the URL. -- Mike Ossmann, Tarantella/UNIX Engineer/Instructor Alternative Technology, Inc. http://www.alttech.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the line: 'unsubscribe vnc-list' in the message BODY See also: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/intouch.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------
