Mike, Ah -- you are an expert! Amazing product in that I last download this in 2000 and have used it without incident ever since. Too bad I am forced to upgrade. I have hunted down the problem some more -- it has to do with the randomness. Using dbx I have found that it is blocking on a socked read for DEVRANDOM_EGD ... I did not specifically set up any sockets for randomness anyplace. Or set any options. I don't really want a socket, I was perfectly happy with my little 1024 byte .rnd file. If I copy a file (at random :-) ) and specify that it use that file for randomness, it reads it and sets it to zero bytes (unless I tell it not to overwrite). It then goes to read the socket and hangs. I suspect this is more an openssl problem than stunnel unless you can think of a way to 1) make it not wipe out my random file 2) make it not try and access a socket I hope you put my little fix in to s_log. Thanks, Eric At 01:51 PM 10/2/2006, you wrote:

On Monday 02 October 2006 21:19, you wrote:

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Are you an openssl/stunnel expert?

I wrote stunnel. I could say I'm an expert (who an expert is otherwise?).

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If I gave you access to my rs6000 and paid you, could you get this to work for me? Since I only need to compil this every 5-10 years, it makes little sense for me to invest a lot of time learning it!

Good idea.

Best regards, Mike

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