Does Timbuktu Pro for Windows support encryption?
Although Timbuktu Pro has always encrypted the passwords (Timbuktu or NT) used to actually authenticate the remote control session, prior versions did not encrypt the remote control data stream, because Netopia’s proprietary graphic protocol was complicated enough to prohibit the easy decoding of display data. However, since data typed during the remote control session was only hidden to the extent that the keystrokes were randomly commingled with other upstream data, these keystrokes were, technically, clear text, and a potential security hole. Netopia has now added a security enhancement, available as of Timbuktu Pro 2000 and Timbuktu Pro for Macintosh v.5.2.3 and higher, which dynamically scrambles and encodes all keyboard and mouse data that is sent from the guest to the host machine on a per session basis. Based on customer feedback regarding the performance, complexity and cost issues of implementing a full standards based PKI security solution, we believe that our current soluti
