[stunnel-users] How to tell if commuications are encrypted?

[Ian Coetzee]

Hi Alex,

You could install Wireshark on the server side and sniff the network
packets to confirm whether they are in plaintext or not.

Kind regards

On 10 May 2018 at 06:56, Alex Birchall <A.Birchall at mdx.ac.uk> wrote:

> Hello,
>
>
> I have Stunnel installed on Windows Server 2008 R2, running as a service.
> I have it installed as a client on a Windows POS 2009 device.
>
>
> This setup is working, in that the client is operating correctly and using
> Stunnel.
>
>
> But how can I tell if communications between the Stunnel client and the
> Stunnel server are being encrypted,  rather than Stunnel just doing port
> forwarding?
>
>
> I did read the client needs to have access to the server's certificate,
> but at the moment it does not.
>
>
> Alex
>
>
>
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