[stunnel-users] syslog communication using TLS with the help of stunnel

Dear All,

Currently we are using syslog communication without any security. That is using UDP protocol with the server listening on port number 514. This is unsecure. I want to use syslog over TLS that is over TCP .

As of now in my project syslogd daemon is used. I am planning to use stunnel to achieve this.

I have few questions. Please clarify

* To support stunnel, syslogd should be on TCP and not on UDP?

* Is stunnel is a daemon ?

* My understanding is syslogd forwards messages to the stunnel local portal at port 61514.

The local stunnel forwards data via the network to port 60514 to its remote peer.

* I assume stunnel-5.26(stunnel-5.26.tar.gz) is the latest version and this can be used on linux

Regards, Girish