stunnel-users September 2020

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older browsers, stunnel and privoxy
by kovacs janos 04 Mar '24

04 Mar '24

sorry to bother, im trying to make older browsers be able to display TLS 1.1 and TLS 1.2 sites. i heard stunnel cant be configured to always forward to the current site address dynamically, thats why i would use privoxy. the browser is configured to send to: 127.0.0.1 443 stunnel config has this at the end: [Tunnel_in] client = yes accept = 127.0.0.1:443 connect = 127.0.0.1:8118 verifyChain = yes CAfile = ca-certs.pem checkHost = localhost 127.0.0.1:8118 is the privoxy address. this is what stunnel writes: LOG5[main]: Configuration successful LOG5[0]: Service [Tunnel_in] accepted connection from 127.0.0.1:3261 LOG5[0]: s_connect: connected 127.0.0.1:8118 LOG5[0]: Service [Tunnel_in] connected remote server from 127.0.0.1:3262 and the browser infinitely loads, and never loads anything or leaves the page. if i remove the last 3 lines, its the same just with this line added: LOG4[main]: Service [Tunnel_in] needs authentication to prevent MITM attacks but it doesnt give an error or anything. with a configuration like: [Tunnel_out] client = no accept = 127.0.0.1:443 connect = 127.0.0.1:8118 cert = stunnel.pem this is what it gives: LOG5[3]: Service [Tunnel_out] accepted connection from 127.0.0.1:3294 LOG3[3]: SSL_accept: 1407609B: error:1407609B:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_CLIENT_HELLO:https proxy request LOG5[3]: Connection reset: 0 byte(s) sent to TLS, 0 byte(s) sent to socket and browser gives a server not found error immediately. im not even sure if i should use client or server configuration in a case like this, but none of them works anyway. all i would need is for my browser to get the pages decrypted, or at least in less than TLS1.1. like how on newipnow.com i can access sites with any encryption, since they are sent to the browser without encryption. the browser just gives an "unencrypted tunnel" warning, which is how i found stunnel, and which is exactly what i need, just locally.

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TPM based mutual tls authentication
by Nyiri, Gabor (Nokia - HU/Budapest) 07 Nov '23

07 Nov '23

Hi, Can you help me how to configure stunnel client to use TPM for mutual TLS authentication? I want to connect with mTLS to a remote server then make this connection available for localhost without mTLS. Thanks for your help in advance! Here is my configuration so far without TPM: debug = debug output = /tmp/stunnel.log foreground = yes [mtls_client] client = yes accept = 127.0.0.1:12019 sni = server-with-mtls.example.com checkHost = server-with-mtls.example.com connect = 1.2.3.4:443 verifyChain = yes CApath = /etc/ssl/certs/ cert = client.crt key = client.key Thanks & br, Gábor Nyíri,

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Stunnel 4 failing to connect to gmail
by Asif Iqbal 11 Dec '20

11 Dec '20

I am faling to connect to gmail. Not sure what that bind error means. iqbala@ghar:~$ sudo stunnel4 2008.12.15 13:53:17 LOG7[3839:3083650736]: Snagged 64 random bytes from /home/iqbala/.rnd 2008.12.15 13:53:17 LOG7[3839:3083650736]: Wrote 1024 new random bytes to /home/iqbala/.rnd 2008.12.15 13:53:17 LOG7[3839:3083650736]: RAND_status claims sufficient entropy for the PRNG 2008.12.15 13:53:17 LOG7[3839:3083650736]: PRNG seeded successfully 2008.12.15 13:53:17 LOG7[3839:3083650736]: Certificate: /etc/stunnel/stunnel.pem 2008.12.15 13:53:17 LOG7[3839:3083650736]: Certificate loaded 2008.12.15 13:53:17 LOG7[3839:3083650736]: Key file: /etc/stunnel/stunnel.pem 2008.12.15 13:53:17 LOG7[3839:3083650736]: Private key loaded 2008.12.15 13:53:17 LOG7[3839:3083650736]: SSL context initialized for service ssmtp 2008.12.15 13:53:17 LOG5[3839:3083650736]: stunnel 4.22 on i486-pc-linux-gnu with OpenSSL 0.9.8g 19 Oct 2007 2008.12.15 13:53:17 LOG5[3839:3083650736]: Threading:PTHREAD SSL:ENGINE Sockets:POLL,IPv6 Auth:LIBWRAP 2008.12.15 13:53:17 LOG6[3839:3083650736]: file ulimit = 1024 (can be changed with 'ulimit -n') 2008.12.15 13:53:17 LOG6[3839:3083650736]: poll() used - no FD_SETSIZE limit for file descriptors 2008.12.15 13:53:17 LOG5[3839:3083650736]: 500 clients allowed 2008.12.15 13:53:17 LOG7[3839:3083650736]: FD 10 in non-blocking mode 2008.12.15 13:53:17 LOG7[3839:3083650736]: FD 11 in non-blocking mode 2008.12.15 13:53:17 LOG7[3839:3083650736]: FD 12 in non-blocking mode 2008.12.15 13:53:17 LOG7[3839:3083650736]: SO_REUSEADDR option set on accept socket 2008.12.15 13:53:17 LOG3[3839:3083650736]: Error binding ssmtp to 74.125.93.111:587 2008.12.15 13:53:17 LOG3[3839:3083650736]: bind: Cannot assign requested address (99) Here is how my conf file looks like iqbala@ghar:~$ cat /etc/stunnel/stunnel.conf | egrep -v "^;|^$" cert = /etc/stunnel/stunnel.pem foreground = yes sslVersion = SSLv3 chroot = /var/lib/stunnel4/ setuid = stunnel4 setgid = stunnel4 pid = /stunnel4.pid socket = l:TCP_NODELAY=1 socket = r:TCP_NODELAY=1 debug = 7 output = /var/log/stunnel4/stunnel.log client = yes [ssmtp] accept = smtp.gmail.com:587 connect = 25 Asif Iqbal PGP Key: 0xE62693C5 KeyServer: pgp.mit.edu

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Stunnel & Gmail security
by BOXI31 TEST 17 Oct '20

17 Oct '20

Hi all, To make "Stunnel 5.31" work with Gmail, I have to go in security settings of Gmail and "allow less secure apps to access my account". Is it mandatory ? Is it possible to set Stunnel to access Gmail without lowering it security level ? How ? I checked in log file TLS v1.2 is used by Stunnel but Gmail still consider it as a "less secure app." ! Regards, Steve

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Stunnel inetd Linux configuration
by Marco Marchi 30 Sep '20

30 Sep '20

Good morning, I'm trying to configure Stunnel on Linux (Slackware 14). Can anybody post an example of configuration file in order to run and manage Stunnel by means of inetd, keeping in mind that goal is to secure pop3 and imap? Openssl is already installed and running (version 1.1.1g, april 2020). Stunnel version downloaded and installed is 5.56. Certifcate has been generated by means of Openssl. Issues are related to the right syntax in stunnel.conf. Thank you in advance. Marco

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sslVersion
by Ray 25 Sep '20

25 Sep '20

Hi Is sslVersion a global parameter that belongs to all segments or can it be inside a segment to only affect that segment? Example: output = /tmp/stunnel.log debug = emerg sslVersion = all # I assume it is applied to all Stunnel connection definitions [Stunnel_1] sslVersion = tls1_2 # How about this? I only want Stunnel_1 to be affected with sslVersion tls1_2 option. client = yes accept = 2222 connect = some_domain.com.au:8449 verify = 2 CAfile = /etc/stunnel/certs/root_digicert_ca.crt Thanks Ray

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Address already in use (98) error trying to run stunnel client in Ubuntu Docker container
by greg＠yesenergy.com 24 Sep '20

24 Sep '20

Hello all, I'm getting the following error when I try to connect to a remote server from inside a running Docker container: "Binding service [client] to 127.0.0.1:1589: Address already in use (98)". I don't think this port is actually in use, and I've tried other ports with the same results. I know that this configuration works in my Windows dev machine, from which I have consistently connected to the remote server, no problem. I suspect this might be related to Docker's internal networking schema and port-forwarding, but I thought I would ask this group if anyone knows how to overcome this hurdle. Thanks for listening! Here is the config: [client] client = yes accept = 127.0.0.1:1589 connect = nn.nnn.nnn.nnn:443 checkHost = xxxxxxxxx.com sslVersion = TLSv1.2 CAfile = /usr/local/etc/stunnel/my_pemfile.pem verifyPeer = yes Here is the log trace: [ ] Clients allowed=512000 [.] stunnel 5.56 on x86_64-pc-linux-gnu platform [.] Compiled/running with OpenSSL 1.1.1d 10 Sep 2019 [.] Threading:PTHREAD Sockets:POLL,IPv6 TLS:ENGINE,FIPS,OCSP,PSK,SNI [ ] errno: (*__errno_location ()) [.] Reading configuration from file /usr/local/etc/stunnel/stunnel.conf [.] UTF-8 byte order mark detected [.] FIPS mode disabled [ ] Compression disabled [ ] No PRNG seeding was required [ ] Initializing service [client] [ ] Ciphers: DES-CBC3-SHA:IDEA-CBC-MD5-DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:DHE-DSS-AES256-SHA:AES256-SHA [ ] TLSv1.3 ciphersuites: TLS_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256:TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 [ ] TLS options: 0x02100004 (+0x00000000, -0x00000000) [ ] No certificate or private key specified [.] Configuration successful [ ] Binding service [client] [ ] Listening file descriptor created (FD=8) [ ] Setting accept socket options (FD=8) [ ] Option SO_REUSEADDR set on accept socket [.] Binding service [client] to 127.0.0.1:1589: Address already in use (98) [ ] Listening file descriptor created (FD=8) [ ] Setting accept socket options (FD=8) [ ] Option SO_REUSEADDR set on accept socket [.] Binding service [client] to 127.0.0.1:1589: Address already in use (98) [!] Binding service [client] failed [ ] Deallocating section defaults [ ] Unbinding service [client] [ ] Service [client] closed [ ] Deallocating section [client]

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Stunnel to smtp-relay.gmail.com
by Anton Palmgård 23 Sep '20

23 Sep '20

Hi, a few days ago up to a week my stunnel connection to smtp-gmail.gmail.com. stopped working with the error: ep 21 17:25:57 stunnel LOG50: Connection reset: 0 byte(s) sent to TLS, 0 byte(s) sent to socket Sep 21 17:25:57 stunnel LOG30: Remote server is not RFC 1425 compliant Sep 21 17:25:57 stunnel LOG50: Service [to_gmail] connected remote server from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:29662 Tried from 2 different Locations / sites (i.e companies) same error. The relay work fine without client settings but that leaves TLS to the endpoint.. Office 365 relay works fine with TLS. Contacted Google support but the claimed nothing have been changed. I assume somehting with the TLS version/ CIPHERS is wrong ? Conf simply looks like this: cert = /usr/local/etc/stunnel/stunnel.pem chroot = /var/tmp/stunnel setuid = stunnel setgid = stunnel [to_gmail] client = yes accept = 0.0.0.0:587 connect = smtp-relay.gmail.com:587 debug = 7 TIMEOUTclose = 0 protocol = smtp BR, Anton.

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Stunnel failover
by Ray 16 Sep '20

16 Sep '20

Stunnel's failover option with prio settings works fine but the application first tries 3 syn to connect to the first endpoint and if failed then it tries the second endpoint. Is there any way to configure stunnel to try only once and failover to the second connection endpoint?

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using Android Keystore with stunnel
by blacksun＠directbox.com 09 Sep '20

09 Sep '20

Hello, i am using stunnel 5.56 on Android 7.0. It is a non-rooted device. Android stores keys and certs in the android keystore. I am using a Let's Encrypt Cert on serverside, and on clients the options veryChain and chechHost. How can i use the System-integrated CA-Certs of Android for verifying the server-cert issued by Let's Encrypt? When i am searching the net, there are infos saying that the certs and keys are not accessible by filestructure, but there would be apis to access the keystore. The keystore would be protected with the PIN of the device. Thanks.

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stunnel-users September 2020