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How to distinguish stunnel definition between SMTP through SSL-TLS vs. STARTTLS?
by Ben Stover 26 Oct '17

26 Oct '17

As yyou know there are two types of letting a local email client connect to remote secured SMTP server: 1.) through SSL-TLS and 2.) through STARTTLS How do I distinguish betwen these connection types in the stunnel.conf setup file? In a previous post I was told to look at the "protocol" parameter. Ok, if I specify protocol=smtp what does that mean: "Connect through SSL-TLS protocol" or "connect through STARTTLS protocol"? It seems to me that I ALWAYS have to specify "protocol=smtp" for ALL smtp-server connects. The stunnel documentation does not explain how to setup the *.conf file for each of the variants. Is this done only by port number 465 vs 587? That would mean there is a hidden configuration by convention! What if the webhoster would set up a special mail server at port 8888? Ben

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stunnel and TLS1.2 for IE
by Thomas GMX 20 Oct '17

20 Oct '17

Hello. I have successfully configured my email client (Outlook 2010) to my provider with TLS1.2 via stunnel running as a service. config: debug = 5 engine = capi [freenet-pop3s] client = yes EngineID = capi accept = localhost:2110 connect = mx.freenet.de:995 [freenet-smpts] client = yes EngineID = capi accept = localhost:2025 connect = mx.freenet.de:465 That was no problem. But at this point I am wondering if it is possible and how I can configure stunnel so that "all" https traffic from Internet Explorer is going through stunnel and connect to internet with highest secure level supported. Not only to one specific server (connect = xyz.net) but to all servers given in IE address. By now I guess that I have to set IE so that it uses a https-proxy at "localhost:xxx" with stunnel config "accept = localhost:xxx". But how is stunnel config for "connect x.x.x.x:443" that it connect to the right server in internet I specified in IE address line? Can someone give me a hint? Or impossible? Thanks a lot Thomas

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Connection setup for STARTTLS vs. SSL/TLS for POP3/SMTP mail servers?
by Ben Stover 20 Oct '17

20 Oct '17

In stunnels *.conf file I can specify the mail server name and the port for a connection. How can I tell stunnel to use STARTTLS as connect type? How can I tell stunnel to use SSL/TLS as connect type? Does stunnel support both connect types at all or only one? Is the connect type for SMTP completely determined by port e.g.: STARTTLS over port 587 and SSL/TLS over port 465 or can both connect types use both ports? Assume I do not get the supported connect type information from my webhoster: How can I find it out from my (client) side? What are there error messages? Ben

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Stunnel on Android 7.x not working?
by John Appleseed 14 Oct '17

14 Oct '17

Hello, I have trouble with stunnel on Android 7.x.. I'm trying to connect to OpenVPN server through SSL tunneling with stunnel. On phone I'm using stunnel installed in Termux and OpenVPN. Everything is correctly configured, Im using the same config on other devices in same network and it works perfectly. I tried it with different devices with Android 7.x and it is not working at all :( Immediately after succesful connection I am receiving: TLS fd: Software caused connection abort (103) TLS socket closed (SSL_read) And it is still reconnecting again and again with the same error. I also tried it with stunnel downloaded directly from stunnel.org site.. Anyone with new Android who have working stunnel? Where can be the problem? Example stunnel.conf on Android: socket = l:TCP_NODELAY=1 socket = r:TCP_NODELAY=1 debug = debug [openvpn] client = yes accept = 1337 connect = *****.ddns.net:993 cert = /path/to/stunnel.pem and on server: chroot = /var/lib/stunnel4 pid = /stunnel.pid output = /stunnel.log setuid = stunnel4 setgid = stunnel4 socket = l:TCP_NODELAY=1 socket = r:TCP_NODELAY=1 [openvpn] client = no accept = 993 connect = 127.0.0.1:1194 cert = /etc/stunnel/stunnel.pem Example stunnel.log is in attachment. Thank you very much

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No certificate or private key specified
by Hugo Darley 12 Oct '17

12 Oct '17

Hi, After overcoming some initial more obvious problems I have still been unable to get this client's stunnel configured correctly. "No certificate or private key specified" - is this significant? Stunnel.conf looks like the below: debug = 2 output = stunnel.log CAfile=.\ca-verisign.crt client=yes verify=0 sslVersion = TLSv1.2 options = NO_SSLv2 options = NO_SSLv3 [TRD] accept=16002 connect= our.ip.com:443 [INV] accept=16003 connect= our.ip.com:443 Stunnel output log below 2017.10.12 10:53:22 LOG7[main]: Found 1 ready file descriptor(s) 2017.10.12 10:53:22 LOG7[main]: FD=276 ifds=r-x ofds=--- 2017.10.12 10:53:22 LOG7[main]: FD=284 ifds=r-x ofds=--- 2017.10.12 10:53:22 LOG7[main]: Dispatching signals from the signal pipe 2017.10.12 10:53:22 LOG7[main]: Processing SIGNAL_RELOAD_CONFIG 2017.10.12 10:53:22 LOG7[main]: Running on Windows 6.1 2017.10.12 10:53:22 LOG5[main]: Reading configuration from file stunnel.conf 2017.10.12 10:53:22 LOG5[main]: UTF-8 byte order mark detected 2017.10.12 10:53:22 LOG5[main]: FIPS mode disabled 2017.10.12 10:53:22 LOG7[main]: Compression disabled 2017.10.12 10:53:22 LOG7[main]: Snagged 64 random bytes from C:/.rnd 2017.10.12 10:53:22 LOG7[main]: Wrote 1024 new random bytes to C:/.rnd 2017.10.12 10:53:22 LOG7[main]: PRNG seeded successfully 2017.10.12 10:53:22 LOG6[main]: Initializing service [TRD] 2017.10.12 10:53:22 LOG7[main]: Ciphers: HIGH:!DH:!aNULL:!SSLv2 2017.10.12 10:53:22 LOG7[main]: TLS options: 0x03000004 (+0x03000000, -0x00000000) 2017.10.12 10:53:22 LOG7[main]: No certificate or private key specified 2017.10.12 10:53:22 LOG4[main]: Service [TRD] needs authentication to prevent MITM attacks 2017.10.12 10:53:22 LOG6[main]: Initializing service [INV] 2017.10.12 10:53:22 LOG7[main]: Ciphers: HIGH:!DH:!aNULL:!SSLv2 2017.10.12 10:53:22 LOG7[main]: TLS options: 0x03000004 (+0x03000000, -0x00000000) 2017.10.12 10:53:22 LOG7[main]: No certificate or private key specified 2017.10.12 10:53:22 LOG4[main]: Service [INV] needs authentication to prevent MITM attacks 2017.10.12 10:53:22 LOG5[main]: Configuration successful 2017.10.12 10:53:22 LOG7[main]: Closing service [TRD] 2017.10.12 10:53:22 LOG7[main]: Service [TRD] closed (FD=284) 2017.10.12 10:53:22 LOG7[main]: Service [TRD] closed 2017.10.12 10:53:22 LOG7[main]: Closing service [INV] 2017.10.12 10:53:22 LOG7[main]: Service [INV] closed (FD=276) 2017.10.12 10:53:22 LOG7[main]: Service [INV] closed We tried giving the certification a hard location but still it seems unable to find it. Is there anything in the cfg you can see missing? Bearing in mind this is standard cfg for our clients connecting in. Kind regards, Hugo Darley The information contained in and accompanying this communication is strictly confidential and intended solely for the use of the intended recipient(s). If you have received it by mistake please let us know by reply and then delete it from your system; you should not copy the message or disclose its content to anyone. MarketAxess reserves the right to monitor the content of emails sent to or from its systems. Any comments or statements made are not necessarily those of MarketAxess. For more information, please visit www.marketaxess.com. MarketAxess Europe Limited is authorised and regulated by the UK Financial Conduct Authority, registered in England no. 4017610, registered office at 5 Aldermanbury Square, London EC2V 7HR. Telephone (020) 7709 3100. MarketAxess Corporation is regulated in the USA by the SEC and FINRA, incorporated in Delaware, executive offices at 299 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10171. Telephone (1) 212 813 6000.

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OpenService: Error 1060: The specified service does not exist as an installed service.
by Hugo Darley 09 Oct '17

09 Oct '17

User has recently installed v5.4.2 on a windows machine and gets this error: [cid:image001.gif@01D33EA5.DF25F8D0] Downloaded the .exe file from the website, installed into a D: drive folder (not the C: program files x86 folder), edited the config file to what we have advised countless users in the past and added the verisign crt to the same folder. Has reinstalled a couple of times to no avail. I have searched on the net for help but nothing specific to STunnel. Can anyone advise? Many thanks Hugo The information contained in and accompanying this communication is strictly confidential and intended solely for the use of the intended recipient(s). If you have received it by mistake please let us know by reply and then delete it from your system; you should not copy the message or disclose its content to anyone. MarketAxess reserves the right to monitor the content of emails sent to or from its systems. Any comments or statements made are not necessarily those of MarketAxess. For more information, please visit www.marketaxess.com. MarketAxess Europe Limited is authorised and regulated by the UK Financial Conduct Authority, registered in England no. 4017610, registered office at 5 Aldermanbury Square, London EC2V 7HR. Telephone (020) 7709 3100. MarketAxess Corporation is regulated in the USA by the SEC and FINRA, incorporated in Delaware, executive offices at 299 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10171. Telephone (1) 212 813 6000.

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Re: [stunnel-users] Need some info
by Heinsbroek, Peter 09 Oct '17

09 Oct '17

I know. I have a module that reads and writes the pin encrypted from/into a disk file. Till stunnel 5.38 it worked via engine_pkcs and now I try to build it into stunnel. I works ,but the only thing now is where to store the pin after decrypting it. __________________ With regards Peter Heinsbroek Tel. +31 (0)88 265 9869 -----Original Message----- From: stunnel-users [mailto:stunnel-users-bounces@stunnel.org] On Behalf Of Malgorzata Olszówka Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2017 3:03 PM To: stunnel-users(a)stunnel.org Subject: Re: [stunnel-users] Need some info W dniu 05.10.2017 o 14:39, Heinsbroek, Peter pisze: > How can I get the pin info from the config file entry “engineCtrl = > PIN:12345” into a variable in the ctx.c source With regards, Peter > Heinsbroek SQL & Unix Administrator Hello Peter, This is an example pin to the SoftHSM token. Regards, Malgorzata Olszowka _______________________________________________ stunnel-users mailing list stunnel-users(a)stunnel.org https://www.stunnel.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/stunnel-users This e-mail and the documents attached are confidential and intended solely for the addressee; it may also be privileged. If you receive this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately and destroy it. As its integrity cannot be secured on the Internet, Atos’ liability cannot be triggered for the message content. Although the sender endeavours to maintain a computer virus-free network, the sender does not warrant that this transmission is virus-free and will not be liable for any damages resulting from any virus transmitted. On all offers and agreements under which Atos Nederland B.V. supplies goods and/or services of whatever nature, the Terms of Delivery from Atos Nederland B.V. exclusively apply. The Terms of Delivery shall be promptly submitted to you on your request.

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Professional support agreement
by alper erbakan 07 Oct '17

07 Oct '17

Hi, I am trying to find a company that willing to glve professional support for stunnel Windows version. I tried to reach from stunnel.org e-mail addresses is not working. Would you please help? Best regards iPhone'umdan gönderildi

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Comments on daily DH Parameters regeneration...
by Taed Wynnell 06 Oct '17

06 Oct '17

We've been experiencing pain due to the daily STunnel regeneration of the DH Parameters. On our single-core machines in the field, this process will use 100% of the CPU for possibly an extended time. This interferes with other tasks that the machine is intended for. What's odd is that this process time ranges wildly, ranging from as low as 3 seconds to 90 minutes, even on the same machine. We see this behavior on all (thousands) of our machines, now that we know what to look for (the "Cron jobs completed in" trace in stunnel.log). We now know that we can set the DH Parameters in the configuration file, and that's what we'll be doing going forward. (Unless someone has another idea to offer.) I'd like to suggest some ideas for the future since I've seen on the mailing list that there are others who have run into this issue: * If the DH Parameter regeneration would run at Idle priority instead of Normal priority, it would not be nearly as noticeable, in that the CPU usage would still be there, but it wouldn't impact other services. The recomputation may be done in a separate thread, if so, this is straight-forward. * If there were a configuration file parameter to specify the regeneration interval. It would default to 24 hours (which is the current behavior), but could be set to a longer interval, a shorter interval for extreme security, or even to never. STunnel would still regenerate at the time of the service starting, unless a fixed DH is found in the configuration file. If a fixed DH were specified in the configuration file, that would avoid the service start computation and the interval would default to never. If both a fixed DH and the interval were specified in the configuration file, it would use the specified interval and recompute only after that interval.

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Need some info
by Heinsbroek, Peter 05 Oct '17

05 Oct '17

How can I get the pin info from the config file entry “engineCtrl = PIN:12345” into a variable in the ctx.c source With regards, Peter Heinsbroek SQL & Unix Administrator Tel. +31 (0)88 265 9869 Mob. +31 6 5375 3244 Werner von Siemensstraat 3 2712 PN Zoetermeer, Nederland Org. unit B&PS-BTN/NL-TS-PS Central Unit 04 Email peter.heinsbroek(a)atos.net<mailto:peter.heinsbroek@atos.netm> Web www.nl.atos.net<UrlBlockedError.aspx> Atos IT Solutions and Services B.V. Comm. Register The Hague no. 27380688 This e-mail is intended exclusively for the addressee(s), and may not be forwarded or made available for use to any person other than the addressee(s). If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender thereof and destroy/delete the message. The sender disclaims any liability as regards (the content of) this e-mail. This e-mail and the documents attached are confidential and intended solely for the addressee; it may also be privileged. If you receive this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately and destroy it. As its integrity cannot be secured on the Internet, Atos’ liability cannot be triggered for the message content. Although the sender endeavours to maintain a computer virus-free network, the sender does not warrant that this transmission is virus-free and will not be liable for any damages resulting from any virus transmitted. On all offers and agreements under which Atos Nederland B.V. supplies goods and/or services of whatever nature, the Terms of Delivery from Atos Nederland B.V. exclusively apply. The Terms of Delivery shall be promptly submitted to you on your request.

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