Re: TightVNC development plans

[Ed S. <ed...@ee...>]

But please do make it easy to not build in the encryption if it isn't 
needed. I'd sure hate to see the main .EXE get bloated with a statically 
linked encryption library when I'm doing all the encryption elsewhere.

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Ville Herva wrote:

>On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 05:20:43PM +0200, you [Alain] wrote:
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>>>* Built-in encryption.
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>>Keep it simple and focused.  For example encryption using Zebedee (or other
>>one's) is fine.  vnc is doeing one thing good, please keep it that way
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>In my opinion built-in encryption would be a wonderful bonus.
>
>The reality is, people don't use encryption unless it is really easy and
>hassle-free to (1) install and (2) use. In practice: (1) you install vnc and
>get the encryption installed at the same time and (2) you click one
>check-box (that might be on by default).
>
>I admit I need to look zebedee in more detail (*) (**), but I imagine it
>can't be easier than built-in ssl. Ssh is wonderful (and something I use
>with vnc now), but needs among other things installing sshd and that I'd
>like not to have to do with each and every box I use vnc on...
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>v...@ik...
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>(*) Is there a short vnc and zebedee -intruction for lazy beings like me? 
>(**) I wonder if zebedee would allow for easy encryption of rsync
>connections; rsync being the number two thing that needs encryption after
>vnc on my list...
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