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Socat
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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.
=TCP to STDIN=
=Cleartext to SSL Tunnel for DyKnow=
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$ socat tcp4-listen:1337,fork openssl:dyknow.lt.vt.edu:443,cafile=ThawtePremiumServerCA/etc/ssl/certs/GlobalSign_Root_CA.pem
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