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At the basic level, all calls can be secure or non-secure, the latter being the default setting.

Options for secure calls include data encryption, certificate authentication, and password protection.

With data encryption, you can:

Encode the data exchanged between shared programs, transferred files, Chat, and Whiteboard.
Specify whether all secure calls are encrypted.

It is possible to hold secure conferences where all data is encrypted. In a secure call you can use chat and whiteboard, share programs, and transfer files, but you cannot use audio or video because these transmissions are not encrypted. NetMeeting does not support a mix of secure and non-secure data transmission inside a meeting.

With user authentication, you can:

Verify the identity of participants by requiring authentication certificates.
Require a NetMeeting certificate (automatically generated during NetMeeting setup).
Require a personal certificate issued by an external certifying authority or intranet certificate server.
Schedule secure conferences that require all participants to have a certificate.
An authentication certificate is a set of data that identifies a person. A trusted organization, or entity, known as the Certificate Authority, issues the certificate after verifying the person's identity.

With password protection, you can:

Host a meeting that requires a password.
Use Remote Desktop Sharing to control your office computer from home or vice versa.

You can also use a password to protect the confidentiality of your online meetings. When you schedule a meeting, select a password and provide it to the other participants. When the meeting starts, each user provides the password to join. Password protection provides a convenient and easy way to monitor meeting attendance.

Access Rights Control.
Another security option available in NetMeeting is the host's ability to limit what features participants can utilize. For example, meeting hosts can disable the right of anyone but themselves to begin any of the six main features (application sharing, text chat, audio, white boarding, file sharing, and video), and hosts can make themselves the only participant who can invite or accept others into the meeting. Hosts can also enable meeting names and - finally - meeting passwords.

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Posted on June 14, 2003 at 04:21 PM

Updated on November 17, 2003 at 03:05 PM

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