UltraVNC Repeater + SSH tunneling

[hathanassiou]

Has anybody tried to use SSH tunneling to the VNC repeater to create a secure VNC connection? Would that be more secure than the DSM plugin?

The tunnel would look like:
UltraVNC (viewer) -> PuTTY -> ..... -> OpenSSH server -> UltraVNC Repeater -> UltraVNC (server).
Or the Stunnel could be used instead of SSH.

Would that work?

Thanks for all your incredible work

[Guest]

Yes, it would. I'm doing sth similar at several customer locations with firewalls, that do not allow outgoing connections on port 5900. Most times they allow ssh outgoing and incoming, so I log on to the fw or border gateway and create a ssh tunnel to our corporate fw system to access an internal windows machine. So it looks like:

Client --- BorderGateway ====SSHTUNNEL==== Firewall --- int. Machine

- normal connection
= secure connection

Of course, you can use PuTTY for creating a tunnel on localhost, too. That would look like:

Client === FW/BG ====SSH TUNNEL==== FW/BG --- VNC Host

Greets
Grey

[Guest]

Is the Stunnel or the SSH better for performance and key infrastructure?