How to tell if commuications are encrypted?

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

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@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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