Re: How good is Windows RDP's encryption?

From: Sooner Al [MVP] (SoonerAl_at_somewhere.net.invalid)
Date: 03/29/05 

Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 15:42:26 -0600

Its encrypted at 128-bits so using a *strong password* should be sufficient.

With that said...personally I run RD through a SSH tunnel and use a public/private key with a strong
passphrase verus password authentication. 

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"Mikhail Teterin" <usenet@aldan.algebra.com> wrote in message news:17962783.h5XVXZgWZW@misha...
> The XP servers support encryption (except in French versions of XP) in the
> Remote Desktop Protocl (RDP) and so do the clients -- at least, the one
> from http://www.rdesktop.org/ , which is what I plan to use.
>
> But how easy is it to crack? I need to be able to access friend's three
> Windows desktops once in a while and can setup ssh-tunneling, or simply
> configure his firewall device to forward 3 different ports on his public
> IP-address to the port 3389 ("rdp") on his three different private IPs.
>
> The second option is certainly simpler -- how dangerous is it? Is the
> encryption of the protocol real or is it just some kind of obfuscation
> easily openable by anyone, able to sniff a couple of hours worth of
> traffic?
>
> Thanks!
>
>        -mi
>
>

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