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Make sure you secure SynergyKM...
Authored by: the_webmaestro on Feb 17, '09 08:44:21AM
If you're going to go this route, be sure to use ssh to forward the synergy connections, otherwise all your base are belong to us.

More information is available here:
  • http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/2007/04/16/update-securing-synergy-over-the-wire/
  • http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/faq.html#faq5
    What security/encryption does synergy provide?
    Synergy provides no built-in encryption or authentication. Given that, synergy should not be used on or over any untrusted network, especially the Internet. It's generally fine for home networks. Future versions may provide built-in encryption and authentication. Strong encryption and authentication is available through SSH (secure shell). Run the SSH daemon (i.e. server) on the same computer that you run the synergy server. It requires no special configuration to support synergy. On each synergy client system, run SSH with port forwarding:
    ssh -f -N -L 24800:server-hostname:24800 server-hostname
    where server-hostname is the name of the SSH/synergy server. Once ssh authenticates itself, start the synergy client normally except use localhost or 127.0.0.1 as the server's address. SSH will then encrypt all communication on behalf of synergy. Authentication is handled by the SSH authentication. A free implementation of SSH for Linux and many Unix systems is OpenSSH. For Windows there's a port of OpenSSH using Cygwin.
Good luck!

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