SSH Compression - Block Deduplication

Dan Kaminsky dan at doxpara.com
Wed Sep 14 12:27:01 EST 2011


>
> NX's security model is much better, and you can review it. But all the
> freeware versions of NX are abandonware, and many of them do rude
> things to dead farm animals in the process. Do not get me *started* on
> the Google code published "neatx" toolkit. And *all* of them rely on
> the older GPL published NX from NoMachine.
>
> I did have some concerns about their default NX private/public key
> management for the original SSH connection as the "nx" user, to open
> the session, but that can actually be replaced pretty easily if you're
> concerned.
>

SSH provides an excellent security model for X; I wouldn't object at all to
tearing the security out of NX *or* VNC and making either of them dependent
on what SSH provides.


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