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Re: Secure VNC from Windows?



David Fokkema wrote:

> There is this particular windows machine that had a vnc viewer
> installed. I thought: hey, that's cool! and installed a vnc server at
> home and use it from time to time. And now I find out it is not
> encrypted. Nice.
> 
> Is there some sort of secure vnc available with a client running on
> windows? Of course, on decent systems, ssh -X is the way to go. The
> problem is that I can't just install a Cygwin environment or something
> like that.

You could create a secure tunnel between the two systems, then run VNC over
it. SSH port forwarding + PuTTY would work, as would Stunnel.

Adam



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