VNC2Me - About

VNC2Me - About

Written by Jim Dolby Monday, 17 March 2008 11:50

VNC2Me is a modification of UltraVNC Win32) that incorporates SSH as a secure transport layer to enable two (or more) computers to connect even if behind firewalls (most).

SSH is utilized for several reasons, but chiefly ...

 

  1. SSH is a proven and well-respected security application (when setup correctly)
  2. SSH tunneling provides the flexibility necessary, without bloat-ware.
  3. Most platforms have an SSH & VNC client that we can modify to use this system
  4. SSH is Open-source and freely available (openssh is anyway)
  5. Putty (plink) is a small form-factor application, and easily integrated into our project (uses C code).
At this stage, we have a working system, as basically a proof-of-concept, but it is of little use to most people, as it only has limited connectability (creates reverse VNC connection for a listener running on the SSH server).

We recently forcefully took ownership of the showmypcssh project on sourceforge, and hope to incorporate features from that into the VNC2Me system.

We are also consulting with the developers of SSH/VNC Java AppletSSH/VNC Java Applet to try to make our forth-coming systems as compatible as possible. During this consultation, i had to re-think a few things that i wanted to do, in order to maintain maximum compatability.