Re: How to determine if SSL is encrypted? SOLVED
Allen Kistler <ackistler@oohay.moc> wrote in
news:7W7Nj.730$26.351@newssvr23.news.prodigy.net:
> buck wrote:
>> I have googled and not found anything appropriate. If anyone can
>> supply some keywords for my search, please do.
>>
>> stunnel connects to news.newsguy.com on port 563. How can I know
>> that this transmission is encrypted?
>
> 2. Although I haven't ever done it myself, crank up the debug level.
> stunnel comes with its own documentation. I could be better, but
> check out the debug and output parameters in stunnel.conf.
Cranking up the logging level from notice to info in stunnel says I have
AES encryption. Ordinarily I'd try to (I'm a novice WRT wireshark) verify
that with wireshark (tshark), but since stunnel has been around for a long
time, I think I'll trust it.
Thanks for the tip.
--
buck
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