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TODO: Move to software page Socat is a commandline network tool akin to [[w:netcat|netcat]]. It supports SSL, IPv6 and several more protocols. It can come in handy when attempting to sniff traffic that has to speak SSL because setting up a cleartext to SSL proxy is relatively straightforward.

One can create a plaintext to SSL proxy with socat, useful for performing a man-in-the-middle attack to study network traffic when there is an SSL-only server, but the client application has a vanilla TCP mode available. To do so, use a variant of the following command, originally used to look at [[DyKnow]]'s traffic to [[gp:Virginia Tech|Virginia Tech]] servers.

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