Just recently i found out that the various implementations of VNC on Windows, Linux and other systems have an ID based method for negotiating the protocol method of the rfb-protocol to use for the communication. Some of the protocols have more encryption than others, some will only encrypt the logon credentials and some wont use any encryption at all.
Where can i find a (mostly complete) listing of the existing or standardized protocol IDs and their names? If a link to advanced information (e.g. specs) is attached to each of these entries i would appreciate this.
The RFB protocol registries are maintained by IANA.
Current Security Types:
0 Invalid [RFC6143]
1 None [RFC6143]
2 VNC Authentication [RFC6143]
3-15 RealVNC historic assignment
16 Tight historic assignment
17 Ultra historic assignment
18 TLS historic assignment
19 VeNCrypt historic assignment
20 GTK-VNC SASL historic assignment
21 MD5 hash authentication historic assignment
22 Colin Dean xvp historic assignment
23 Secure Tunnel [RFC7869]
24 Integrated SSH [RFC7869]
25-29 Unassigned
30-35 Apple Inc. [Michael_Stein]
36-127 Unassigned
128-255 RealVNC historic assignment
Current Encoding Types:
0 Raw [RFC6143]
1 CopyRect [RFC6143]
2 RRE [RFC6143]
5 Hextile [RFC6143]
9-10 Possibly used in UltraVNC historic assignment
16 ZRLE [RFC6143]
-239 Cursor pseudo-encoding [RFC6143]
-223 DesktopSize pseudo-encoding [RFC6143]
4 CoRRE historic assignment
6 zlib historic assignment
7 tight historic assignment
8 zlibhex historic assignment
15 TRLE [RFC6143]
17 Hitachi ZYWRLE historic assignment
20 H.264 [Tristan_Richardson]
21 JPEG historic assignment [Tristan_Richardson]
22 JRLE historic assignment [Tristan_Richardson]
1000-1002 Apple Inc. [Michael_Stein]
1011 Apple Inc. [Michael_Stein]
1024 to 1099 RealVNC historic assignment [Tristan_Richardson]
1100-1105 Apple Inc. [Michael_Stein]
-1 to -222 tight options historic assignment
-224 to -238 tight options historic assignment
-240 to -256 tight options historic assignment
-257 to -272 Anthony Liguori historic assignment
-273 to -304 VMWare historic assignment
-305 gii historic assignment
-306 popa historic assignment
-307 Peter Astrand DesktopName historic assignment
-308 Pierre Ossman ExtendedDesktopSize historic assignment
-309 Colin Dean xvp historic assignment
-310 OLIVE Call Control historic assignment
-311 ClientRedirect [Brian_Hinz]
-312 Fence TigerVNC
-313 ContinuousUpdates TigerVNC
-314 CursorWithAlpha [Tristan_Richardson]
-412 to -512 TurboVNC fine-grained quality level historic assignment
-523 to -528 Car Connectivity [Jörg_Brakensiek] [Terminal Mode v1.0]
-763 to -768 TurboVNC subsampling level historic assignment
0x48323634 VA H.264 [David_Verbeiren]
0x574d5600 to 0x574d56ff VMWare historic assignment
0xc0a1e5ce to 0xc0a1e5cf Possibly used in UltraVNC historic assignment
0xfffe0000 to 0xfffe00ff Used in LibVNCServer LibVNCServer
0xffff0000 to 0xffff8003 Possibly used in UltraVNC historic assignment