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NAME

       starttls - TLS encryption helper program

SYNOPSIS

       starttls [options] host port

DESCRIPTION

       starttls  is  a  program  that  used  by  emacs  for encryption things,
       probably you never want to invoke it from the command line.  But if you
       are  a sysadmin, you can use it to test a TLS based service.  First you
       have to start starttls, like you start  telnet,  and  when  the  server
       says,  that  you  can  go along with TLS handshake, you have to send an
       SIGALRM to this process, it will do the handshake  for  you  and  after
       that the communication can be continued over stdin/stdout.

AUTHOR

       starttls was written by Daiki Ueno <ueno@unixuser.org>.

       This  manual  page was written by RISKO Gergely <risko@debian.org>, for
       the Debian project (but may be used by others).

                                  2005-03-29                       starttls(1)