On 16 Apr, 00:40, Allen Kistler <ackist...@oohay.moc> wrote:
> D. Stussy wrote:
> > "buck" <b...@private.mil> wrote in message
> >news:Xns9A817A6F1EBACbuckprivatemil@64.209.0.81.. .
> >> How can I know that
> > this
> >> transmission is encrypted?
>
> > By DEFINITION.
>
> Not quite. SSL allows the NULL cipher, which is no encryption.
>
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> Why would you want to use SSL without encryption? I suppose you could
> use it for certificate-based client authentication only, without
> encryption. I don't know anyone who does, but, hey, if you want, you can.

That's not what the OP asked - he wanted to check it was encrypted. In
Stunnel you can set various levels of debugging info which at some
point would include logging the algortihm negotiated, or you can
configure it to only work with certain types of cipher.

OP - RTFM

C.