Why does iTeleport ask for my Gmail credentials?

• Using a Google account is not a requirement with iTeleport -- you can always use other methods to set up networking between iTeleport and your computer, and many users use these features daily. The manual setup guide is described on our site, and although it is a little cumbersome, it gets the job done: manual setup guide.
• If you do use a Google account, the only aspects of the connection that Google helps with is in establishing a network connection between iTeleport and your computer. Why do we do this? Because the other alternatives (e.g. the manual setup guide) are very complex for laypeople to set up themselves, and we've put in a lot of work to leverage Google's infrastructure to simplify the connection setup for you. If you've ever used Google Talk to have a voice or video conversation with someone else, we're using the exact same method to provide a remote desktop 'conversation' between your iPad and the computer. The network connection itself supports encryption, so no one other than yourself and your computer can intercept the information (screen view, key presses, and mouse movements) traveling over the network. Moreover, in most cases, Google's servers are only used to set up the connection, not to relay the traffic for the entire connection. And finally, your VNC password is known only to you -- and so no one can access your computer without this password.

Does iTeleport support SSH encryption?