[stunnel-users] Passphrase validation

Vasil Dimov vd at datamax.bg
Mon Jun 27 16:02:22 CEST 2005


On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 03:33:33PM +0200, Jan Meijer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Peter Pentes wrote:
> >Sorry, what I am referring to here is actually the
> >passphrase for the private keys, and how Stunnel does
> >not support encrypted private keys.
> 
> Sorry to interrupt only this late in the thread *but* what gave you the 
> impression stunnel does not support encrypted private keys?  AFAIK it 
> works on both the unix platform (has done for many years) and since a 
> couple of years it also supports it on the Windows platform (I should 
> know as I have sponsored the latter into stunnel *and* we've been using 
> it for many years now.
> 
> Or perhaps I'm not understanding your question/problem correctly?
> 
> Jan

Oh,

% stunnel stunnel.conf
2005.06.27 16:50:37 LOG5[97316:134639616]: stunnel 4.10 on i386-unknown-freebsd5.4 PTHREAD+POLL+IPv4+LIBWRAP with OpenSSL 0.9.7e 25 Oct 2004
Enter PEM pass phrase:

It seems that stunnel supports encrypted private keys ;-)
This really makes me laugh when I look at the size of this thread :-)
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