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Featured White Paper: Tunneling VNC
CrossTech Media
11/1/2007
This document has been created to describe the steps to be taken to configure Virtual Network
Computing (VNC) such that it can be tunneled over the Secure SHell (SSH) protocol. The
reason for tunneling VNC over SSH is that VNC has traditionally been a clear text protocol,
allowing anyone with access to the network to sniff traffic and discover one's username and
password. By tunneling over SSH, the encrypted tunnel contains the VNC traffic, rendering it
un-sniffable.