EchoVNC 1.3 release
"Scott C. Best" <[email protected]> Wed, 4 May 2005 16:31:10 +0000 (GMT)
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.security.vpn |
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Heyaz. Some shameless self-promotion here. :) The EchoVNC team has today released version 1.3 of their open-source, secure remote-access tool for Windows. EchoVNC 1.3 adds several new features and significantly improves the connection stability of earlier versions. Source and binaries are available here: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=133100 The new 1.3 release adds many new features: o A startup wizard to assist with initial setup o An option to automatically start EchoVNC at startup o OpenSSL is automatically detected to enable the 128-bit AES encryption option Bug Fixes from version 1.1: o Multiple echoServers are now treated correctly o Automatic re-connection with known echoServers has been repaired o The installer will now correctly update older installed versions EchoVNC is a secure tunneling utility for VNC-based remote access. EchoVNC comes with a VNC Viewer, and is designed to work with any flavor of VNC Server that you already have installed (e.g., RealVNC, TightVNC, UltraVNC, etc.). With EchoVNC, a PC on your LAN can be securely remote-accessed without any adjustments to your firewall or router configuration. EchoVNC makes standard VNC installs "firewall friendly" with no port-forwarding requirements. EchoVNC is built upon the open-source echoWare SDK developed as part of the Kaboodle LAN-commander project. With echoWare, any peer-to-peer or client-server Internet application can interconnect via a 3rd-party relay server, making all data traffic appear to be "outgoing" to any client-side firewalls or routers. Via the OpenSSL library, connections between the two applications can have their data content secured with a Diffie-Hellman key-exchange and 128-bit AES encryption. The relay-server supported by echoWare clients is a shareware application called "echoServer" -- together with EchoVNC, it provides an overall remote-access solution that is "firewall-friendly", highly secure, and extremely low cost. For more information on EchoVNC please visit http://www.echovnc.com cheers, Scott