Bug 105635

Summary: krdc needs encryption support
Product: [Applications] krdc Reporter: suson
Component: generalAssignee: Andreas Kling <info>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: wishlist    
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Compiled Sources   
OS: Linux   
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Description suson 2005-05-14 00:33:35 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.4.0)
Installed from:    Compiled From Sources
Compiler:          gcc 3.2.2 
OS:                Linux

Within the Preferences dialog, there is a Enable encryption option that is greyed out (disabled). It would be a great enhancement if this was enabled. While I realize that this would also require support in krfb, the whole desktop sharing thing would be tremendously enhanced if encryption was supported. This could be accomplished in a variety of ways, including use of the method used by TightVNC (automatic ssh tunneling).
Comment 1 www.sjobeck.com 2006-05-09 19:00:44 UTC 
I agree that there is a huge need for security here, but, well, I am not convinced, just as one individual out here in the wilderness, that this is the responsiblity of krdc to provide. There are tons of packages out there that do this, including the SSH wrapper tool in KDE, which works great for setting-up SSH tunnel before firing this guy up pointed at "localhost:44444" or whatever you choose.

There is also NoMachine, which is great, does this out of the box.

"rdesktop" has encrytpion in it for Windohs boxes.

VNC does not have encyrption, as you know, in the protocol, and it doe snot seem in our ability, nor our preview, to deal with that, since there are so many tried-n-true work-arounds and alternatives. I dont know if you have seen how long the buglist is for KDE, but one might argue that we ought not distract the dev's from the other important items.

Just this guy's $0.02.

Peace. Love. Linux.

Jason
Comment 2 Brad Hards 2006-07-31 14:51:33 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 83279 ***