[VPN] Quickest way to create a secure conduit between two Win32 machines?

[Mark G. Spencer]

I am looking for a way to quickly and easily encrypt all communications
between two machines with the encrypted connection being required.

I have looked briefly at Zebedee, F-Secure's SSH server, and MS Technet
stuff on PPTP.  The configuration on these applications seems to be very
complex considering the relatively narrow scope of my task.

Any ideas on the best way to encrypt all communications between two Windows
2000 or XP machines?  I simply want to wrap VNC or Windows XP's Remote
Desktop with Blowfish or pretty much any other robust encryption.  If there
is a better solution out there than what I have looked at I would definitely
appreciate knowing about it!

On a side note .. Apparently Remote Desktop uses the same encryption as
Terminal Services and Citrix?  How secure in practice is this?

Thanks,

Mark