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iap-desktop
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GoogleCloudPlatform / iap-desktop

iap-desktop

IAP Desktop is a Windows application that provides zero-trust Remote Desktop and SSH access to Linux and Windows VMs on Google Cloud.

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REPOSITORY AT A GLANCE

What to know before exploring

What it is

IAP Desktop is a Windows application that provides zero-trust Remote Desktop and SSH access to Linux and Windows VMs on Google Cloud.

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Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

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Also in these discussions

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 12:54:37 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by hour2 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2021-09-07 05:01:40 UTC to 2021-09-07 07:33:45 UTC.

012021-09-07 05:00:00 UTC to 2021-09-07 06:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 commentsSep 7, 05:002021-09-07 06:00:00 UTC to 2021-09-07 07:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsSep 7, 06:002021-09-07 07:00:00 UTC to 2021-09-07 08:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsSep 7, 07:00

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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Sep 7, 05:002021-09-07 05:00:00 UTC2021-09-07 06:00:00 UTC110
Sep 7, 06:002021-09-07 06:00:00 UTC2021-09-07 07:00:00 UTC000
Sep 7, 07:002021-09-07 07:00:00 UTC2021-09-07 08:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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pledess·Sep 7, 2021
This sounds like a deal breaker for some use cases: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/iap-desktop/wiki/Trou... "Because of the way IAP Desktop tunnels RDP connections, it always uses NTLM for authentication and can't use Kerberos." There may be environments that lose the security benefits of Kerberos over NTLMv2 (e.g., mutual authentication) because they've been forced into a new compliance mandate that dictates adoption of Zero Trust in all available contexts.
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