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Re: Remote Desktop vs VPN on Windows 2003


From: Ansgar -59cobalt- Wiechers <bugtraq () planetcobalt net>
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 20:52:24 +0100

On 2005-01-19 Roger A. Grimes wrote:
On 2005-01-19 Ansgar -59cobalt- Wiechers wrote:
On 2005-01-18 Roger A. Grimes wrote:
but if the Windows tool can do the same or better job, why not use
the free tools in the system?

Because it can't.

SSH multiple hacks...RDP one in 2002.  How is RDP the worse tool?  I
keep waiting for facts? 

*sigh*

Like I already said: because its encryption algorithm is weak. Thus it
simply cannot do a better job than tools which provide strong
encryption (like SSH or VPNs). Period.

Regards
Ansgar Wiechers
-- 
"Those who would give up liberty for a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety, and will lose both."
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