Secure VNC?

Forum: Networking
Topic: Secure VNC?
started by: Zucca

Posted by Zucca on July 05 2006,10:47

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Security in VNC
By default, VNC is not a secure protocol. While passwords are not sent in plain-text (as in telnet), brute-force cracking could prove successful if both the encryption key and encoded password are sniffed from a network. For this reason it is recommended that a password of at least 8 characters is used.

Is DSL's VNC server software secure (data sent encrypted)?

I'd like to have secure one...

Posted by kerry on July 05 2006,11:43

"For this reason it is recommended that a password of at least 8 characters is used."

Use more than 8 characters. It proably also depends on how you set it up on both the server and the client. It is encrypted and when you connect you get a key thats protected by your password, so i guess you can say it's only as good as your password.

Posted by Zucca on July 06 2006,06:37

Ok. Thanks. =)

I think I'm going to use VNC server suplied by MyDSL then. =)

Posted by pr0f3550r on July 06 2006,15:24

No, VNC is not secure. If you want security you need X forwarding over ssh.

Posted by cbagger01 on July 06 2006,17:25

Or VNC forwarding over SSH

Posted by Zucca on July 08 2006,11:25

There's no MyDSL extension for secure VNC server?

Posted by green on July 09 2006,04:58

tunnel vnc over ssh.
if you google that you'll get some hits.
there's several places that explain how to do it depending on if you are using windows with PuTTy in the mix, etc.