SSVNC 1.0.23
SSVNC… The Enhanced TightVNC Viewer, SSVNC, adds encryption security to VNC connections.
The package provides a GUI for Windows, Mac OS X, and Unix that automatically starts up an STUNNEL SSL tunnel for SSL or ssh/plink for SSH connections to any VNC server, such as x11vnc, and then launches the VNC Viewer to use the encrypted tunnel.
The x11vnc server has built-in SSL support, however SSVNC can make SSL encrypted VNC connections to any VNC Server if they are running an SSL tunnel, such as STUNNEL or socat, at their end. SSVNC’s SSH tunnel will work to any VNC Server host running sshd that you can log into.
WHAT’S NEW
Version 1.0.23:
- Support for VirtualGL’s TurboVNC (an enhanced TightVNC for fast, high framerate usage) encoding and TightVNC modifications. Binaries for Linux and MacOSX on i386 and amd64 are provided in the bundle. You will also need to download and install the TurboJPEG package separately.
- Outside of TurboVNC mode, TurboVNC’s ‘Pipelined Updates’ idea is implemented and is on by default. Disable via -nopipeline.
- The UltraVNC MS-Logon authentication method is supported (see http://www.uvnc.com/features/authentication.html). Please use an SSH, SSL, or otherwise encrypted tunnel when using UltraVNC MS-Logon over an untrusted network.
- TightVNC compression and quality levels are now automatically determined by measuring the network latency (not the network bandwidth) to the VNC server. If this causes undesirable settings, you will need to specify them manually.
- The -sendclipboard option allows one to send the CLIPBOARD selection to the VNC Server instead of the default PRIMARY selection.
- The -sendalways option indicates to send the selection text every time the mouse focus enters the VNC viewer instead of only when the selection has appeared to have changed.
- The -recvtext option lets one set which of the CLIPBOARD and PRIMARY selections are set when receiving ‘cut text’ from the VNC server. The default now is “both”.
- There are X resources, SendClipboard, SendAlways, and RecvText for the above three selection-oriented options, and EscapeKeys too. SendClipboard and SendAlways are also in the Popup menu.
- Most messages will now go to a popup window if the stdio is not connected to a terminal. Disable with SSVNC_NO_MESSAGE_POPUP.
- OpenSSL for stunnel and ultravnc_dsm_helper in the SSVNC binary bundles have been updated to the latest version to avoid a possible vulnerability. Windows OpenSSL exes and dlls have also be updated to the latest version.
- A bug has been fixed when one sets the -scale option to an invalid scaling string.
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.4 or later.
