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	luca	2009-08-22 , 21:28
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Originally Posted by JayOnThaBeat

Not to hijack my own thread, but how necessary is setting up a VPN for VNC use? I don't have any national secrets on my pc, so should I bother?

Since the vnc protocol is unencrypted, it's relatively easy to sniff passwords (not only the vnc password but any password you type while using it).

And if so, can somebody let me know the best / easiest way to go about it (also keeping in consideration that I am rocking Vista64).

I don't know how easy it is under vista, under linux it's normally built in (you can make encrypted tunnels using ssh), under xp I install cygwin with its ssh server (and that's not really easy but it's well explained in some page findable by google).
There are some stand-alone ssh servers (usually they're just the cygwin one repackaged to be installed by itself) but I prefer the real thing.

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