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Sst can be used to connect to SSL-encrypted network ser-
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vices or it can be used as an SSL front-end to network
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servers. Sst can be used interactively, or in an inetd
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setting, or it can be embedded inside other programs (eg.
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Amanda).
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One of the main goals of sst is to be as basic as possible
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so in most non-embedded cases sst uses netcat to setup the
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networking I/O. Sst uses a socketpair(2) pipe to stay in
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contact with its netcat child process. In this way sst
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only has to concern itself with file descriptors.
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In the embedded mode sst expects the parent program to set
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up the networking I/O and to provide the appropriate file
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descriptors. In embedded client mode ("-c"), clear data
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is read from (or written to) stdin (fildes 0) and SSL-
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encrypted data is read from (or written to) stdout (fildes
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1). In embedded server mode ("-s"), SSL-encrypted data is
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read from (or written to) stdin and clear data read from
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(or written to) stdout.
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WWW: http://utcc.utoronto.ca/~pkern/stuff/sst/
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