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Comments on daily DH Parameters regeneration...
by Taed Wynnell 06 Oct '17

06 Oct '17

We've been experiencing pain due to the daily STunnel regeneration of the DH Parameters. On our single-core machines in the field, this process will use 100% of the CPU for possibly an extended time. This interferes with other tasks that the machine is intended for. What's odd is that this process time ranges wildly, ranging from as low as 3 seconds to 90 minutes, even on the same machine. We see this behavior on all (thousands) of our machines, now that we know what to look for (the "Cron jobs completed in" trace in stunnel.log). We now know that we can set the DH Parameters in the configuration file, and that's what we'll be doing going forward. (Unless someone has another idea to offer.) I'd like to suggest some ideas for the future since I've seen on the mailing list that there are others who have run into this issue: * If the DH Parameter regeneration would run at Idle priority instead of Normal priority, it would not be nearly as noticeable, in that the CPU usage would still be there, but it wouldn't impact other services. The recomputation may be done in a separate thread, if so, this is straight-forward. * If there were a configuration file parameter to specify the regeneration interval. It would default to 24 hours (which is the current behavior), but could be set to a longer interval, a shorter interval for extreme security, or even to never. STunnel would still regenerate at the time of the service starting, unless a fixed DH is found in the configuration file. If a fixed DH were specified in the configuration file, that would avoid the service start computation and the interval would default to never. If both a fixed DH and the interval were specified in the configuration file, it would use the specified interval and recompute only after that interval.

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Need some info
by Heinsbroek, Peter 05 Oct '17

05 Oct '17

How can I get the pin info from the config file entry “engineCtrl = PIN:12345” into a variable in the ctx.c source With regards, Peter Heinsbroek SQL & Unix Administrator Tel. +31 (0)88 265 9869 Mob. +31 6 5375 3244 Werner von Siemensstraat 3 2712 PN Zoetermeer, Nederland Org. unit B&PS-BTN/NL-TS-PS Central Unit 04 Email peter.heinsbroek(a)atos.net<mailto:peter.heinsbroek@atos.netm> Web www.nl.atos.net<UrlBlockedError.aspx> Atos IT Solutions and Services B.V. Comm. Register The Hague no. 27380688 This e-mail is intended exclusively for the addressee(s), and may not be forwarded or made available for use to any person other than the addressee(s). If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender thereof and destroy/delete the message. The sender disclaims any liability as regards (the content of) this e-mail. This e-mail and the documents attached are confidential and intended solely for the addressee; it may also be privileged. If you receive this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately and destroy it. As its integrity cannot be secured on the Internet, Atos’ liability cannot be triggered for the message content. Although the sender endeavours to maintain a computer virus-free network, the sender does not warrant that this transmission is virus-free and will not be liable for any damages resulting from any virus transmitted. On all offers and agreements under which Atos Nederland B.V. supplies goods and/or services of whatever nature, the Terms of Delivery from Atos Nederland B.V. exclusively apply. The Terms of Delivery shall be promptly submitted to you on your request.

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Using Chrome directly as an STunnel Client to connect to an STunnel Server
by Dipen Doshi 04 Oct '17

04 Oct '17

Hello, I am new to STunnel and I am running into a problem. Here is my setup. I use an ASUS router with Merlin firmware. I have STunnel installed via Entware on this router. Running "stunnel -version" gives me: stunnel 5.41 on mipsel-openwrt-linux-gnu platform Compiled/running with OpenSSL 1.0.2k 26 Jan 2017 Threading:PTHREAD Sockets:POLL,IPv6 TLS:ENGINE,FIPS,OCSP,PSK,SNI Global options: RNDbytes = 64 RNDoverwrite = yes Service-level options: ciphers = FIPS (with "fips = yes") ciphers = HIGH:!DH:!aNULL:!SSLv2 (with "fips = no") curve = prime256v1 debug = daemon.notice logId = sequential options = NO_SSLv2 options = NO_SSLv3 sessionCacheSize = 1000 sessionCacheTimeout = 300 seconds stack = 65536 bytes TIMEOUTbusy = 300 seconds TIMEOUTclose = 60 seconds TIMEOUTconnect = 10 seconds TIMEOUTidle = 43200 seconds verify = none ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I use my own server certificate signed by my own CA. This cert has the proper SANs with correct DNS/IP entries. I use this server certificate both for my router's HTTPS web gui and for the "cert" and "key" files listed in the config file below. Also, the "CAfile" in the config is pointing to my Root CA's certificate. My Root CA is also imported in my Windows box's certificate store. I can directly access my router's web gui from LAN side via these ports: 80 (HTTP), 2000 (HTTPS). Router's LAN subnet is 10.49.49.0/24 and the router's WAN IP is 10.76.5.3 (it is double NAT for testing, this router is for testing) Also, STunnel is running as a server accepting connections on port 443 (all interfaces) on the router. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I want to use Chrome directly as an STunnel client on my Windows box. So, I don't run STunnel on my Windows box in the client mode. SITUATION 1: WORKS FINE!! -- PURPOSE: Use Chrome to connect to "https://WAN_IP:443" This should forward to the router's port 80 (HTTP protocol used). My STunnel config file on the router has: setuid = nobody setgid = nobody foreground foreground = yes syslog = yes debug = 7 [Test-Service] accept = 443 connect = 10.49.49.1:80 requireCert = yes verifyChain = yes CAfile = /mnt/Merlin/entware/etc/stunnel/ca.crt cert = /mnt/Merlin/entware/etc/stunnel/server.crt key = /mnt/Merlin/entware/etc/stunnel/server.key SITUATION 2: DOES NOT WORK!! -- PURPOSE: Use Chrome to connect to "https://WAN_IP:443" This should forward to the router's port 2000 (HTTPS protocol used). There is only one change from the Situation 1 config file. The line for "connect" changed to "connect = 10.49.49.1:2000) This does not work. Note that I can directly access my router's web gui over https with "https://LAN_IP:2000" via Chrome, with no warnings. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ My thoughts: So, my current path is Chrome (Acting as STunnel Client) --> STunnel Server (on the router) --> Router's Web GUI. The "Chrome --> STunnel" Server connection is fine. Chrome prompts for private key and STunnel server correctly shows this incoming Chrome connection. The problem is the "STunnel Server --> Router" relay that uses HTTPS protocol. 1. STunnel does not like HTTPS to HTTPS relay. HTTP to HTTPS works, but not HTTPS to HTTPS. 2. STunnel server on my router is a client to my router's web gui. Is STunnel verifying the certificate of my router's HTTPS certificate? 3. If the above answer is yes, my guess is that STunnel sees a self signed certificate for this router and kills the connection? 4. How do I tell STunnel server to ignore certificate warnings for a remote connection, like when connecting to this router? 5. Or how do I explicitly tell STunnel to trust my Root CA while making this connection to my router? I couldn't find any options in STunnel for this. Regards, Dipen Doshi

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Missing librairies
by Heinsbroek, Peter 26 Sep '17

26 Sep '17

I’m getting unresolved external symbol errors. I like to know what library I need for s_log. log.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _stunnel_process_id referenced in function _log_id log.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _stunnel_thread_id referenced in function _log_id log.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _file_open referenced in function _log_open log.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _file_close referenced in function _log_close log.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _file_putline referenced in function _log_raw log.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _tls_alloc referenced in function _s_log str.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _tls_alloc log.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _tls_get referenced in function _s_log str.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _tls_get log.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _ui_new_log referenced in function _log_raw log.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _message_box referenced in function _fatal_debug log.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _global_options referenced in function _log_open log.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _stunnel_locks referenced in function _log_close str.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _stunnel_locks str.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _num_clients referenced in function _leak_threshold str.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _number_of_sections referenced in function _str_leak_debug str.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _tls_initialized referenced in function _str_stats __________________ With regards Peter Heinsbroek Tel. +31 (0)88 265 9869 This e-mail and the documents attached are confidential and intended solely for the addressee; it may also be privileged. If you receive this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately and destroy it. As its integrity cannot be secured on the Internet, Atos’ liability cannot be triggered for the message content. Although the sender endeavours to maintain a computer virus-free network, the sender does not warrant that this transmission is virus-free and will not be liable for any damages resulting from any virus transmitted. On all offers and agreements under which Atos Nederland B.V. supplies goods and/or services of whatever nature, the Terms of Delivery from Atos Nederland B.V. exclusively apply. The Terms of Delivery shall be promptly submitted to you on your request.

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Bug: Modifying configure.ac results in error
by Reschke, Sven (VWIF G-TS/P) 22 Sep '17

22 Sep '17

Hallo, I've encounter a problem when editing the configure.ac. I've upgraded to Stunnel 5.42, the problem wasn't existent with Stunnel 5.41. The normal operation is that "./configure" and "make" will run without an error. So far, so good. Now, if I edit the configure.ac, running again "./configure" and "make", "make" will report: CDPATH="${ZSH_VERSION+.}:" && cd . && /bin/sh <path_to_stunnel_sources>/stunnel-5.42 /auto/missing aclocal-1.14 -I m4 cd . && /bin/sh <path_to_stunnel_sources>/stunnel-5.42 /auto/missing automake-1.14 --gnu CDPATH="${ZSH_VERSION+.}:" && cd . && /bin/sh <path_to_stunnel_sources>/stunnel-5.42 /auto/missing autoconf configure.ac:4: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_MSG_NOTICE If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow. See the Autoconf documentation. configure.ac:23: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_DEFINE make: *** [configure] Error 1 Here it doesn't matter what I change in configure.ac. Even the slightest modification results in the error. After some investigation, running "make" with "-d" showed that it will call auto/missing, because of the newer version of configure.ac. Comparing aclocal.m4 before and after calling "make" shows, that mainly the lines added between the version 5.41 and 5.42 are missing now (lines #23 - #741). As I'm not so familiar with the whole compile process, I found a simple hack, which solves the problem for the moment: Adding these missing lines to a new file named m4/acinclude.m4. After that, compiling, installing and running Stunnel works fine. Can someone verify? If you have questions, I'll try my best to answer them :) Best Regards, Sven Reschke Embedded System SW Developer G-TS/P

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Help with connectivity issue
by Rob Allen 15 Sep '17

15 Sep '17

I’ve installed stunnel on an Amazon EC2 instance: stunnel 4.56 on x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu platform Compiled/running with OpenSSL 1.0.1e-fips 11 Feb 2013 Threading:PTHREAD Sockets:POLL,IPv6 SSL:ENGINE,OCSP,FIPS Auth:LIBWRAP Global options: debug = daemon.notice pid = /var/run/stunnel.pid RNDbytes = 64 RNDfile = /dev/urandom RNDoverwrite = yes Service-level options: ciphers = FIPS (with "fips = yes") ciphers = ALL:!SSLv2:!aNULL:!EXP:!LOW:-MEDIUM:RC4:+HIGH (with "fips = no") curve = prime256v1 sessionCacheSize = 1000 sessionCacheTimeout = 300 seconds sslVersion = TLSv1 (with "fips = yes") sslVersion = TLSv1 for client, all for server (with "fips = no") stack = 65536 bytes TIMEOUTbusy = 300 seconds TIMEOUTclose = 60 seconds TIMEOUTconnect = 10 seconds TIMEOUTidle = 43200 seconds verify = none I’ve created the stunnel.conf file: [smtp-tls-wrapper] accept = 2525 client = yes connect = email-smtp.us-west-2.amazonaws.com:465 protocol=smtp delay = yes I’ve tested the connection to SES (successfully) via openssl: [ec2-user@ip-172-31-4-68 ~]$ openssl s_client -quiet -crlf -connect email-smtp.us-west-2.amazonaws.com:465 depth=2 C = US, O = "VeriSign, Inc.", OU = VeriSign Trust Network, OU = "(c) 2006 VeriSign, Inc. - For authorized use only", CN = VeriSign Class 3 Public Primary Certification Authority - G5 verify return:1 depth=1 C = US, O = Symantec Corporation, OU = Symantec Trust Network, CN = Symantec Class 3 Secure Server CA - G4 verify return:1 depth=0 C = US, ST = Washington, L = Seattle, O = "Amazon.com, Inc.", CN = email-smtp.us-west-2.amazonaws.com verify return:1 220 email-smtp.amazonaws.com ESMTP SimpleEmailService-2370111491 wa7VtNk9b7c4TX0jNpdG But when I try to access through stunnel via localhost with telnet, I get this: [ec2-user@ip-172-31-4-68 ~]$ telnet localhost 2525 Trying ::1... telnet: connect to address ::1: Connection refused Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. Connection closed by foreign host. I’ve tried everything I can think of; I’ve read all the blogs and pages related to connecting from ec2 to SES via stunnel and I just can’t get it to work. Does anyone have any suggestions for other things I could try? Thanks in advance, Rob Allen, CPO Software Engineer | Eyefinity NOTICE: This message is intended only for the individual to whom it is addressed and may contain information that is confidential or privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, or the employee or person responsible for delivering it to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, copying or use is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender and destroy or delete this communication immediately.

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Stunnel Config Error
by Jay Jenney 21 Aug '17

21 Aug '17

Trying to see why Stunnel like this config file (attached) for an office365 email account [cid:image001.jpg@01D31A6F.5FD0FC60] Harriscomputer Register today<http://www.harriscomputer.com/en/conference/> for HCTC2017 - Early Bird deadline is August 31! Jay Jenney Support Specialist P: 800-274-2911 x64272 F: E: jjenney(a)caliberpublicsafety.com [cid:Caliber_PS_left_CMYK_247aef3c-9961-4e6c-a9f4-053e52f0093f.jpg] , Iowa www.caliberpublicsafety.com<http://www.caliberpublicsafety.com> This message has been sent on behalf of a company that is part of the Harris Operating Group of Constellation Software Inc. These companies are listed at the following link: http://subscribe.harriscomputer.com Unsubscribe Option: If you do not wish to receive any future email, please unsubscribe by clicking on the following link:http://subscribe.harriscomputer.com This message is intended exclusively for the individual or entity to which it is addressed. This communication may contain information that is proprietary, privileged or confidential or otherwise legally exempt from disclosure. If you are not the named addressee, you are not authorized to read, print, retain, copy or disseminate this message or any part of it. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately by e-mail and delete all copies of the message.

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stunnel w & w/o data compression
by Daniele Basaldella 18 Aug '17

18 Aug '17

Dear all, I use stunnel in clinet configuration to get data feeds from several sources. Until now none of them requested data compression, so the configuration was easy. Now I need to connect to a new data feeder that requires zlib compression. I found the compression method is a global setting, so it will be not compatible with current setup. The server runs Ubuntu 16.04LTS, ker 4.4.0.92.lowlatency, stunnel 5.30, openssl 1.0.2.g. I looked for a solution on internet but seems no one have my issue. Someone could suggest how to get both compressed/uncompressed data feed connections on same system. Thank you Best Regards Daniele

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Timeout issue I think
by Ben Bazian 16 Aug '17

16 Aug '17

I have a legacy server that uses IMAP but does not support TLS. I am using stunnel and since implementation I am getting errors when an email has a larger attachment. My application process these attachments and when done (sometimes can take 5-10 minutes) it marks the message for deletion. When all messages are completed it purges the emails from the box. My app is throwing an error when it tries to delete the message (see below). I think it may be due to stunnel closing the connection to the server? Not quite sure. javax.mail.FolderClosedException at com.sun.mail.imap.IMAPMessage.getProtocol(IMAPMessage.java:105) at com.sun.mail.imap.IMAPMessage.loadEnvelope(IMAPMessage.java:941) at com.sun.mail.imap.IMAPMessage.getSubject(IMAPMessage.java:238) at com.softlinx.docurouter.source.email.EmailSourceConnector.processMess ages(EmailSourceConnector.java:1213) at com.softlinx.docurouter.source.email.EmailSourceConnector.process(Ema ilSourceConnector.java:1455) at com.softlinx.docurouter.source.email.EmailSourceConnector.main(EmailS ourceConnector.java:1622) My configuration is pretty simple. I saw somewhere that I could put a timeoutidle on the connector but that does not seem to help. Any ideas are appreciated. Here is the config. # Stunnel configuration file for Office 365 SMTP and POP3 # Author: MessageOps, www.messageops.com<http://www.messageops.com> # GLOBAL OPTIONS client = yes output = /etc/stunnel/stunnel-log.txt debug=3 # taskbar=yes # SERVICE-LEVEL OPTIONS [POP3 Incoming] accept = 110 connect = outlook.office365.com:995 timeoutidle = 14400 [SMTP Outgoing] protocol = smtp accept = 25 connect = outlook.office365.com:587 [IMAP] accept = 143 connect = outlook.office365.com:993 timeoutidle = 14400 Here is a printout of the global options. Global options: debug = daemon.notice pid = /var/run/stunnel.pid RNDbytes = 64 RNDfile = /dev/urandom RNDoverwrite = yes Service-level options: ciphers = FIPS (with "fips = yes") ciphers = ALL:!SSLv2:!aNULL:!EXP:!LOW:-MEDIUM:RC4:+HIGH (with "fips = no") curve = prime256v1 sessionCacheSize = 1000 sessionCacheTimeout = 300 seconds sslVersion = TLSv1 (with "fips = yes") sslVersion = TLSv1 for client, all for server (with "fips = no") stack = 65536 bytes TIMEOUTbusy = 300 seconds TIMEOUTclose = 60 seconds TIMEOUTconnect = 10 seconds TIMEOUTidle = 43200 seconds verify = none -Ben

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logging real client IP in Apache
by Stoyan Stoyanov 07 Jul '17

07 Jul '17

I have an Apache server serving only HTTP requests on port 80 and an stunnel daemon on the same server listening on port 443 and tunneling HTTPS requests to Apache. Is there a way for the client IP to be passed on to Apache so that I can capture and log that instead of the IP of stunnel, which in this case is 127.0.0.1? Ability to add a variable to the HTTP header would be perfect, but any other suggestions to solve this problem are welcome. Thanks! Stoyan

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