SSL wrapping or SSH tunnelling? Which is more secure?

Nik Clayton nik at freebsd.org
Mon Aug 19 21:39:04 BST 2002


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On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 06:56:20PM +0100, Jonathan Dean wrote:
> Quick question:
> Which method is considered more secure for services such as POP3 and IMAP=
4?
> Making users use ssh tunnels to access the services or wrapping the=20
> services in ssl using stunnel?
> Any views will be greatfully recieved.

I use ssh forwarding, just because it's the approach I found first.
Never had a problem with it.

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