https://www.linuxjournal.com/content...v4-stunnel-tls
The article discusses stunnel tls
The article discusses stunnel tls
The Network File System (NFS) is the most popular file-sharing protocol in UNIX. Decades old and predating Linux, the most modern v4 releases are easily firewalled and offer nearly everything required for seamless manipulation of remote files as if they were local.
The most obvious feature missing from NFSv4 is native, standalone encryption. Absent Kerberos, the protocol operates only in clear text, and this presents an unacceptable security risk in modern settings. NFS is hardly alone in this shortcoming, as I have already covered clear-text SMB in a previous article. Compared to SMB, NFS over stunnel offers better encryption (likely AES-GCM if used with a modern OpenSSL) on a wider array of OS versions, with no pressure in the protocol to purchase paid updates or newer OS releases.
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The performance penalty for tunneling NFS over stunnel is surprisingly small—transferring an Oracle Linux Installation ISO over an encrypted NFSv4.2 connection is well within 5% of the speed of clear text. Even more stunning is the performance of fuse-sshfs, which appears to beat even clear-text NFSv4.2 in transfer speed. NFS remains superior to sshfs in reliability, dynamic idmap and resilience, but FUSE and OpenSSH delivered far greater performance than expected.
The most obvious feature missing from NFSv4 is native, standalone encryption. Absent Kerberos, the protocol operates only in clear text, and this presents an unacceptable security risk in modern settings. NFS is hardly alone in this shortcoming, as I have already covered clear-text SMB in a previous article. Compared to SMB, NFS over stunnel offers better encryption (likely AES-GCM if used with a modern OpenSSL) on a wider array of OS versions, with no pressure in the protocol to purchase paid updates or newer OS releases.
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The performance penalty for tunneling NFS over stunnel is surprisingly small—transferring an Oracle Linux Installation ISO over an encrypted NFSv4.2 connection is well within 5% of the speed of clear text. Even more stunning is the performance of fuse-sshfs, which appears to beat even clear-text NFSv4.2 in transfer speed. NFS remains superior to sshfs in reliability, dynamic idmap and resilience, but FUSE and OpenSSH delivered far greater performance than expected.