[stunnel-users] Setting up Stunnel on Server AND Clients

Tue Jun 14 03:08:53 CEST 2005

Only the client does.  The client makes a connection
and requests data.  The server then sends the data
across.

Peter

--- Jan Meijer <jan.meijer at surfnet.nl> wrote:

> On Tue, 7 Jun 2005, Peter Pentes wrote:
> 
> > I'm having trouble understanding how to
> incorporate
> > Stunnel into a client/server environment.
> >
> > There is a application running on the server which
> > receives and sends data to various clients.  The
> > clients also have a communications application
> > running.  None of the apps (on both server and
> > clients) support any form of encryption. So I want
> to
> > use Stunnel for this.
> >
> > How would I set Stunnel up on the server and also
> the
> > clients? I can't find an example on stunnel.org
> that
> > discusses such a scenario.
> 
> Who initiates the conversation?  Is it only the
> client that initiates a 
> conversation to the server or does the server
> initiate a conversation to 
> the client?  In the latter case I'd imagine you'd
> have some firewall 
> problems as well ;).
> 
> Traffic dumps do help.
> 
> Jan
> 
> -- 
> http://www.surfnet.nl/organisatie/jame
> 

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