[Desktop_architects] Summits at Desktop Developers Conference in Ottawa

[Martin Konold]

Am Donnerstag, 2. März 2006 23:03 schrieb Jim McQuillan:

Hi,

>   o Encryption of the X protocol.  Sure you can tunnel your X
>     connection over SSH, but there are scaling issues when you
>     run anything more than 30-40 thin clients from the same server.
>     We have several examples of hundreds of thin clients connected
>     to the same server, and currently, there isn't a good way of
>     encrypting the traffic.

Did you check IPSEC? IMHO I expect that IPSEC can easily encrypt more than 40 
clients simulaneously. (Actually ssh should also be able to do it with a 
slight overhead).

Regards,
-- martin

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