Symantec PCANYWHERE - V12.1, User Manual

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Click OK.
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If you want to connect to additional computers, repeat step 1 through step
6.
Securing connections through pcAnywhere
CrossPlatform
You can secure your connections through pcAnywhere CrossPlatform in the
following ways:
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Encrypting your CrossPlatform sessions
■
Connecting to a serialized host
Encrypting your sessions through pcAnywhere CrossPlatform
Encryption is a method of encoding or scrambling data to prevent unauthorized
users from reading or tampering with the data. Symantec pcAnywhere
CrossPlatform uses encryption to ensure that the data that you send cannot be
read or altered by unauthorized users while in transit.
If the host and the remote are running pcAnywhere 11.5 or later and the encryption
levels do not match, pcAnywhere automatically raises the encryption level on the
computer that is using the lower level to match the encryption level on the
computer that is using the higher level. If you are using symmetric encryption,
pcAnywhere also raises the algorithm levels if the one of the computers is using
a lower level.
For example, if the host encryption level is configured for pcAnywhere encoding
and the remote encryption level is configured for symmetric encryption,
pcAnywhere automatically raises the encryption level on the host to symmetric.
If either the host computer or the remote computer is running pcAnywhere 11.0.x
or earlier and the encryption levels or algorithms do not match, pcAnywhere
attempts to lower the encryption level on the computer that is using the higher
level to match the encryption level on the computer that is using the lower level.
You can configure pcAnywhere to deny the connection instead.
To encrypt your sessions through pcAnywhere CrossPlatform
1 In the pcAnywhere CrossPlatform main window, on the File menu, click
Connect.
2 In the pcAnywhere CrossPlatform secondary window, click Advanced.
3
In the Advanced Options window, under Encryption, in the Level list, select
one of the following:
Connecting across multiple platforms
Securing connections through pcAnywhere CrossPlatform
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