In addition to providing encryption plug-ins, the UltraVNC server will run on any Windows system (Windows 95 thru 2003) and allows you to connect to it from any system with a compatible browser. This leaves my current top choice as UltraVPN from. RealVPC Personal Edition ( includes support for AES128 encryption, but is only available for Windows platforms. While you could use an encrypted tunnel to encapsulate the VNC session (see Chapter 5, Managing Event Logs, for instructions on encrypting arbitrary sessions over both SSH and SSL), the other alternatives include native encryption support. TightVNC ( encrypts the password exchange when you initially logon, but the rest of the session is unencrypted. Some of the more prominent are RealVNC, TightVNC, and UltraVNC. This resembles the situation with Linux distributions in that the number of options can sometimes make it difficult to know which one is the best choice. It has gone through a lot of changes and is now available under many names, each with their own focus. VNC computing and has been around for a long time. Some are free and some are for-pay, but I’m going to leave it up to you to install and configure those clients. I’m going to assume that you’ve already got some manner of VNC client on your Windows machine such as TightVNC or UltraVNC. If you need to connect to your OS X screen via a Windows computer, this functionality is provided right out of the box in OS X via the VNC server service. And, of course, you very well may have a mixture of Windows and OS X simply because you choose to, which is great. The main reason I’m covering VNC here is that we all must accept the fact that business requirements will mostly likely force you to use a Windows system at some point, if not constantly. The ARD client is a for-purchase application from the App Store. While the ARD client provides a far greater range of functionality, I am specifically carving out the VNC server functions in this section, so you know that you can use any of the many VNC clients to connect to your Mac. VNC is the core application at the heart of OS X screen sharing and Apple Remote Desktop, herein referred to as ARD. Virtual Network Computing, or VNC, is an open source application that provides screen sharing services and is available for virtually all operating systems such as Windows, Linux, and of course OS X. Timothy “Thor” Mullen, in Thor's OS Xodus, 2016 VNC
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