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On 11 Apr 2009, at 10:13, Konstantinos Agouros wrote: |
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> ... the MAC-Screenshare VNC Client gave a warning about 'not so |
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> good authentication' so it seems apple might after all have a |
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> proprietary |
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> extension in there. |
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It's worth mentioning that the original GPL, AT&T sponsored VNC |
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offered no encryption (except perhaps as https in the browser-based |
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Java version?). The last I heard was that work had ceased upon it, |
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following the termination of AT&T sponsorship, but that some of the |
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authors had started their own company selling VNC-based solutions. |
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Their new products are used by at least one company that sells KVM-IP |
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switches, but I believe they are all closed & proprietary. I think |
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more than one OSS / 3rd-party VNC project have, as a consequence, |
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added encryption, but I don't believe that any of them are |
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compatible. :( |
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It really is a shame, IMO. VNC brought us cross-platform |
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screensharing, but without encryption one is reluctant to use it |
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outside the LAN. |
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Stroller. |
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