[stunnel-users] No encryption?

Tue Sep 27 07:46:22 CEST 2005

On Tuesday 27 of September 2005 03:06, Revelancefound at aol.com wrote:
> It seems that stunnel does not encrypt outward traffic from my
> pc. I was able to get stunnel to work in the first place by having
> different proxies for each protocol.
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> To my  disappointment, the sniffer picked up my username and
> password in plain text through  HTTP protocol several times.
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> ; Use it for client mode
> client = yes

What's the reason to use client mode stunnel for http?
Most web browsers support http natively.

> [https]
> accept  = 127.0.0.1:443
> connect = httpsupportingproxy2:6588
> TIMEOUTclose = 0

The port is also confusing.  Since you use client mode your 
httpsupportingproxy2:6588 should be an SSL-enabled server
and 127.0.0.1:443 is a plain http service, isn't it?

> verify = 0

And to have a certificate-based authentication it's a good idea to turn
it on.  SSL is vulnerable to main-in-the-middle attacks, otherwise.

Best regards,
    Mike
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