[indiana-discuss] Undocumented Desktop Sharing "Require Encryption" pref

[Calum Benson]

On 27 May 2009, at 17:02, David Abrahams wrote:

>
> The Desktop Sharing preferences application has a checkbox labelled
> "Require Encryption," but it doesn't do what I expected: accept
> connections only over https rather than http (I don't want my password
> sent in the clear).  So what *does* it do?

See:
<http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=788050>
<http://www.gnome.org/~markmc/remote-desktop.html#encryption>

Cheeri,
Calum.

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