Re: backport of socat

[Peter Palfrader <weasel@debian.org>]

On Thu, 04 Feb 2016, Ben Hutchings wrote:

> 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

Thanks for the pointer.  Yes, I too would like to see that in stable.
Either via backports or via a stable-update.

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