[stunnel-users] Clearer and Detailed version of the mail Stunnelfor HTTP enc

Thu Jul 20 17:28:11 CEST 2006

On 20 Jul 2006 at 14:50, LoopBack Inc wrote:

> Hello Ian,
> 
> 
> Yes thats excatly what I want to do.
> 
> In fact, if possible, this I haven't described yes, I would like to encript 
> every program I want through PC2, used as a proxy, like you said.
> But if it would work with the http it wouldn't be bad.
> 
> Thank you for your reply.

Hi,

Ok, this has clarified things for me.

Another question, do you have a copy of the proxy program (SocksCap 
?) running on 
PC2?

If not then this is the problem.  I believe that stunnel does not 
itself act as a proxy.  It 
simply acts as a tunnel.

>From your description of your config I suspect that you should have a 
second copy of 
SocksCap listenening on PC2 which will forward data onto the 
internet.

A quick example:

PC1:

SocksCap listening on port 8080 ( for example) forwards to 
127.0.0.1:500
stunnel listening on port 500, forwarded any data to PC2 port 500

PC2:

stunnel listening on port 500 forwards data to 127.0.0.1:8080
SocksCap listening on port 8080 forwards data out to the internet.

This will encrypt data between PC1 & PC2 but after that it will be 
back in plain.

In order to test this I would break it down into its individual 
components and test each 
stage.  I recommend downloading netcat 
(http://netcat.sourceforge.net/ or google for it) 
and learn how to use it.  Sorry I can't help you with this bit, its 
better if you learn it 
yourself - and once you have you will wonder how you ever managed 
without it ;)

Regards

Ian
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