stunnel-users January 2015

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15 discussions

No DNS lookup?
by Colin vd Zanden 20 Jan '15

20 Jan '15

Hi, We've got a bit of a problem working with Stunnel. We are trying to connect to a domain, but the stunnel is somehow translating it to a IP adres. (We didn't know, we saw it in the log file). This is causing our connection to fail. Is there any way to prevent stunnel from translating the domain into a IP, and just connect to the domain name?

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Stunnel, please add me to your LinkedIn network
by Neacsu Mihai Adrian 17 Jan '15

17 Jan '15

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HTTPS support for the webserver using STUNNEL
by Siva Kumar 13 Jan '15

13 Jan '15

Hi All, I am fairly new to stunnel and also to the networking concepts. Currently we are working on a surveillance device running on monta vista linux on the ARM11 architecture. We have crossed compiled and deployed a THTTPD server which is working fine. Once you connect to the device using any of the web client (from a windows PC), it will take you to a web page where you can select and stream live video's from all the camera's connected to the device. So far everything is working fine now.. Now the real problem is that we need to support https as well along with http. Since THTTPD web server doesn't support secure connection we thought we would accomplish that using the stunnel application. We were able to download and cross compile the stunnel application for the device. Now the doubts I have here is:- 1) Do we need a stunnel server application running on the windows PC from where we will be using the web browser to connect to the client? 2) Where should be the stunnel server and stunnel client be running. I mean should the linux device be running the stunnel client and the windows PC be running the stunnel server? In that case what should be the correct accept and connect parameters in the stunnel.conf file in both the device and the windows PC? 3) Since the device and the machine can have any random IP and port, so is it feasible to dynamically set the accept and connect parameters in the stunnel.conf file? 4) Can the stunnel be considered as a solution to the problem which I have reported here. The point 3 above makes me thing otherwise. I have tried all combinations mentioned in the point 1 and 2 without success. In none of the case my web browser was able to talk to the device using HTTPS (ie https://my_device_ip). I could see a "client hello" request from the browser to which the client sends an ACK and RST. In some combination an HTTPS request from the browser only triggered a TCP connection request for which the client responded with ACK and RST. Sorry for the long mail. Any inputs would be deeply appreciated. Regards, Siva

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Using stunnel to secure clients instead of servers
by Leon Smith 07 Jan '15

07 Jan '15

Hi, this may be a slightly unusual request, but I was curious if stunnel could be used for securing clients that do not support TLS, to connect to services that optionally support TLS. So, really, stunnel already does almost everything that would be needed; except that in this use case, it would be listening for incoming unencrypted connections, and then serve as a proxy to an encrypted connection to the actual service. While it might be nice to offer certificate-based authentication options in this scenario, it wouldn't be necessary for my intended use case, so stunnel wouldn't need access to any private certificates. However, certificate pinning would be pretty essential to what I have in mind. Best, Leon.

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stunnel 5.09 released
by Michal Trojnara 02 Jan '15

02 Jan '15

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Dear Users, I have released version 5.09 of stunnel. The ChangeLog entry: Version 5.09, 2015.01.02, urgency: LOW: * New features - Added PSK authentication with two new service-level configuration file options "PSKsecrets" and "PSKidentity". - Added additional security checks to the OpenSSL memory management functions. - Added support for the OPENSSL_NO_OCSP and OPENSSL_NO_ENGINE OpenSSL configuration flags. - Added compatibility with the current OpenSSL 1.1.0-dev tree. * Bugfixes - Removed defective s_poll_error() code occasionally causing connections to be prematurely closed (truncated). This bug was introduced in stunnel 4.34. - Fixed ./configure systemd detection (thx to Kip Walraven). - Fixed ./configure sysroot detection (thx to Kip Walraven). - Fixed compilation against old versions of OpenSSL. - Removed outdated French manual page. Home page: https://www.stunnel.org/ Download: https://www.stunnel.org/downloads.html SHA-256 hashes: 87b34a74061861d1edd2ab238c73eb989b3d0a17e44574b7b6ead1a16aae38c8 stunnel-5.09.tar.gz 4abbddf3c1dbedf54b14fa5a18ead11e4df6387f13189b665c2ec5759c4afd30 stunnel-5.09-installer.exe 23c33dc46cc1bfb1df77c88d3c48901822bc113dd1e67d138bcf5fb1bb3d4197 stunnel-5.09-android.zip Best regards, Mike -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iEYEARECAAYFAlSmt98ACgkQ/NU+nXTHMtGZowCfTspj4OZn8DRBUboG2S+1Qy2A ocoAoLdZpjJU7BjERXqQakhNIPOXFojN =/MD9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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