Description: Revise ssldump.1 for correctness and completeness
Author: Simon Law <sfllaw@engmail.uwaterloo.ca>
@@ -61,12 +61,9 @@ ssldump \- dump SSL traffic on a network
@@ -81,6 +78,16 @@ ssldump \- dump SSL traffic on a network
+.RI [\| crypto \||\| d \||\| ht \||\| H \||\| nroff \|]
@@ -125,6 +132,7 @@ any user may run
You must have read access to
Print bare TCP ACKs (useful for observing Nagle behavior)
@@ -135,7 +143,7 @@ the most interesting fields)
Display the application data traffic. This usually means
decrypting it, but when -d is used ssldump will also decode
-application data traffic _before_ the SSL session initiates.
+application data traffic \fIbefore\fP the SSL session initiates.
This allows you to see HTTPS CONNECT behavior as well as
SMTP STARTTLS. As a side effect, since ssldump can't tell
whether plaintext is traffic before the initiation of an
@@ -148,18 +156,9 @@ dumps. See also -X.
Print absolute timestamps instead of relative timestamps
-Read data from \fIfile\fP instead of from the network.
-The old -f option still works but is deprecated and will
-probably be removed with the next version.
Print the full SSL packet header.