[Asterisk-Users] Manager

[Steven Critchfield]

On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 12:25, Steven J. Sobol wrote:
> At 12:13 PM 7/31/2003 -0500, you wrote:
> 
> 
> >Does anyone see any potential problem with eventually linking in ssl in
> >such a way as to allow connections to be made securely? I do not know
> >the amount of work this would entail, but this would potentially allow
> >for our IAX traffic to be encrypted too.
> 
> If we're using stunnel to tunnel unencrypted connections through an
> SSL pipe, I'm not sure any rewriting would have to be done on Asterisk's
> end. Clients might have to be re-coded, though.... but for IAX/IAX and
> Manager connections, I don't think a lot of work would be required.
> 
> Again, I have to play around with stunnel and asterisk before I can
> confirm any such assumptions.

Using stunnel shouldn't be any work at all. In fact you could set it up
to run out of /etc/inetd and then make connections to localhost on the
appropriate ports to get to the appropriate remote hosts.

-- 
Steven Critchfield  <critch at basesys.com>