RE: remote desktop question

["Jimmy Sansi" <jsansi () ritzfoodservice com>]

SSH tunneling is a nice way of creating an encrypted tunnel.
Essentially with an SSH client program you setup the tunneling
rules and then authenticate and logon to the remote SSH host.
After establishing the connection you can use any of your existing
programs to tunnel inside the SSH session.

It requires a bit of setup but works very nicely and is relatively
'secure' from end to end. Best of all there are free or open
source programs to accomplish this. Just remember that encrypted
communication does not replace good security practices for keeping
the host machines patched and plugged.

www.openssh.org
www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/
http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA002416/teraterm.html

-Jimmy

-----Original Message-----
From: scott [mailto:scottslists () barringtonlibrary org]
Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 10:28 AM
To: security-basics () securityfocus com
Subject: remote desktop question


hi,

this might be a stupid question but, is there any encryption used with
remote desktop.  also, if there is not is there any products (free or low
cost) that i can use to protect my remote desktop connections, such as vpn,
and what is the best way to set it up?

thanks

Scott