s_client refusing -connect - On older Debian (GLIBC 2.13)

[Quix0r]

The said message comes with Debian:

$ ./cipherscan www.somehost.example
/home/user/git/cipherscan/openssl s_client doesn't accept the -connect parameter, which is extremely strange; refusing to proceed.
$ ./openssl
./openssl: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.14' not found (required by ./openssl)
./openssl: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.15' not found (required by ./openssl)
$

Or maybe (better!) reconsider rewrititing it and avoid binary blobs (which may not run on all Linux distributions).

[jvehent]

Use your system's openssl: $ ./cipherscan -o $(which openssl) google.com

But be aware the results will only be as good as what your distribution's openssl supports.

Unfortunately, there's no magic bullet to run cipherscan on older distribution. The solution here is to run something newer.

[tomato42]

Or maybe (better!) reconsider rewrititing it and avoid binary blobs (which may not run on all Linux distributions).

we are well aware of this and it's in the works

[Quix0r]

Okay.