STunnel Reviews & Product Details

It's really user-friendly and offers a straightforward way to add a security layer to your application, enabling SSL capabilities. Plus, it's open source, which makes it even more accessible, especially with the excellent documentation available. It relies on OpenSSL under the hood, which is a huge advantage for compatibility. Overall, it's a solid choice for anyone looking to enhance security of their applications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There’s been a bit of a drop in performance for the application because of the encryption layer. The initial setup can be a little tricky since you really need to understand the documentation, as everything has to be configured in the stunnel.conf file. Also, it only focuses on encrypting traffic and doesn’t offer any features for intrusion detection or prevention, which is a bit of a downside. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Strong TLS encryption is a feature that Stunnel excels at offering for outdated protocols. It boosts security without changing already-existing apps. It is quite easy to use and provides a clear method for adding a security layer and turning on SSL capabilities to your application. Furthermore, because of the available documentation, it is much more accessible because it is open source. The fact that OpenSSL is used internally is a major compatibility benefit. For those wishing to improve the security of their apps, it's an excellent option all around. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The performance overhead of Stunnel can be substantial because of its cryptographic processing. High connection traffic throughput may be impacted by this.

It took some getting used to and required some searching on forums and internet, but once that was done, it worked perfectly! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

STunnel services to TLS Encryption provides a lightweight yet powerful solution to efficiently secure non-TLS protocols in a variety of environments. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Using Stunnel in a chroot environment requires additional configuration steps to ensure TCP Wrappers work properly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Stunnel is excellent at providing strong TLS encryption for legacy protocols. Increase security without modifying existing applications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Stunnel's performance overhead can be significant due to cryptographic processing. This may affect the throughput of high connection volumes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

that STunnel gave me the ability to use needed old software with SSL Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

the configuration was a little annoying and not easy, I had to google and search on their forums, but after that it was great! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.