From 2b028912066473fb1e9ef60753d9f699a038f0bf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Roethlisberger Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2016 14:44:11 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Add paragraph on autossl to README --- README.md | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index a9b76bb..9191561 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -39,6 +39,11 @@ HSTS to allow the user to accept untrusted certificates, and Alternate Protocols to prevent switching to QUIC/SPDY. HTTP compression, encodings and keep-alive are disabled to make the logs more readable. +As an experimental feature, SSLsplit supports STARTTLS and similar mechanisms, +where a protocol starts on a plain text TCP connection and is later upgraded to +SSL/TLS through protocol-specific means, such as the STARTTLS command in SMTP. +SSLsplit supports generic upgrading of TCP connections to SSL. + See the manual page sslsplit(1) for details on using SSLsplit and setting up the various NAT engines.