Security?

[Kevin Buettner]

On Apr 12,  2:52pm, Don Harrop wrote:

> I'm curious...  I've been playing arount with VNC for a window based remote
> control utility.  When I'm typing at a command line, the packets that are
> sent are graphic packets, right?  Does that mean that sniffers can't
> decipher what I'm typing at a command line like you could if you were to
> telnet to the same box??

You'll be using the VNC protocol.  (If I understand your setup.)

You may be marginally safer with the VNC protocol than with telnet,
but since it doesn't do any encryption, you should not rest easy.
Just tunnel your VNC session through ssh and you'll be much better
off.

Kevin