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Re: backport of socat



On Thu, 2016-02-04 at 08:29 +0100, Peter Palfrader wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'd like to see a backport of socat (1.7.3.1 or later) to stable.
> 
> The feature I want is that socat now actually checks the server's
> name against the certificate it presents when using openssl-connect.
> (Something that stunnel4 still doesn't do.)

I think it can (but also not in the version in stable):
https://www.decadent.org.uk/ben/blog/securing-git-imap-send-in-debian.html

Ben.

> Can you upload socat to backports?  Should somebody else do it?
> 
> Cheers,
-- 
Ben Hutchings
Beware of bugs in the above code;
I have only proved it correct, not tried it. - Donald Knuth

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