[stunnel-users] How to tell if commuications are encrypted?

Ian Coetzee stunnel-users at iancoetzee.za.net
Thu May 10 10:44:20 CEST 2018


Hi Alex,

You could install Wireshark on the server side and sniff the network
packets to confirm whether they are in plaintext or not.

Kind regards

On 10 May 2018 at 06:56, Alex Birchall <A.Birchall at mdx.ac.uk> wrote:

> Hello,
>
>
> I have Stunnel installed on Windows Server 2008 R2, running as a service.
> I have it installed as a client on a Windows POS 2009 device.
>
>
> This setup is working, in that the client is operating correctly and using
> Stunnel.
>
>
> But how can I tell if communications between the Stunnel client and the
> Stunnel server are being encrypted,  rather than Stunnel just doing port
> forwarding?
>
>
> I did read the client needs to have access to the server's certificate,
> but at the moment it does not.
>
>
> Alex
>
>
>
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