Added info about using SSH for authentication and encryption.

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5. What security/encryption does synergy provide?
None. Synergy currently does no encryption or authentication.
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 will provide encryption and
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
called OpenSSH is available from http://www.openssh.com/. For
Windows there's a port of OpenSSH using Cygwin
(http://www.cygwin.com/).
6. What should I call my screens in the configuration?
You can use any unique name in the configuration file for each