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What is stunnel in Linux?
The stunnel program is an encryption wrapper between a client and a server. It listens on the port specified in its configuration file, encrypts the communitation with the client, and forwards the data to the original daemon listening on its usual port.
What is stunnel used for?
Stunnel is a very versatile open-source tool designed to help secure web applications. It encrypts traffic, proxies connections, and redirects web applications so that they can run securely on a computer with untrusted network connections.
Where is stunnel installed?
Stunnel configures itself using a file named “stunnel. conf” which by default is located in “/etc/stunnel”. Next we specify a service for use with Stunnel. It can be any of the services which use networking such as mail server, proxy server, etc.
