[stunnel-users] Q: stunnel checking of certs?

Thu Dec 2 09:06:21 CET 2004

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Okay, quite supid to answer own questions but since it is only partly ...

On Dienstag 30 November 2004 15:21, Heiko Nardmann wrote:
> Hi together!
>
> Two questions:
>
> 1) does stunnel read the cert files/directories only once at startup or
> every time it has to check a certificate?
>

As far as I see in the source code a call to SSL_CTX_load_verify_locations(3) 
is done which stores the information about CApath (from the configuration 
file) inside SSL context.

> 2) does stunnel support CRLs? e.g. getting the CRL via LDAP?

As seen from the man page CRLs are supported but not getting them via LDAP. So 
getting a CRL via LDAP is a task for a cron job (with ldapsearch inside) done 
daily.

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Heiko Nardmann (Dipl.-Ing. Technische Informatik)
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