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OpenSSL - Toolkit for Secure Sockets Layer and Transport Layer Security

The OpenSSL Project is a collaborative effort to develop a robust, commercial-grade, fully featured, and Open Source toolkit implementing the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL v2/v3) and Transport Layer Security (TLS v1) as well as a full-strength general-purpose cryptography library.

Obtaining

Web pagehttp://www.openssl.org/
Source tarballhttp://www.openssl.org/source/openssl-0.9.7d.tar.gz
Source informationhttp://www.openssl.org/source/
Version 0.9.7d (stable) released on 2004-03-25
Licensed under OpenSSL License.
This is not a GNU package.

Documentation
User FAQ included; User manpage included and available in HTML format from http://www.openssl.org/docs/
Support contacts

Announce List<ssl-announce@openssl.org> http://www.openssl.org/support/
Help List<ssl-users@openssl.org> http://www.openssl.org/support/
Developer List<ssl-dev@openssl.org> http://www.openssl.org/support/
Bug Databasehttp://www.openssl.org/support/rt2.html

Project contacts

Maintainers
Developers
  • Eric A. Young (eay@cryptsoft.com)
  • Tim J. Hudson (tjh@cryptsoft.com)
  • OpenSSL Project Team <openssl@openssl.org>

Related information

Source repositoryhttp://www.openssl.org/source/repos.html
Interfaceslibrary, command line
ProgramsSSL library, Crypto library, openssl command line tool
Source languagesC, Perl
Use requirementsPerl 5
Build prerequisitesmake

Entry information

License verified byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2002-08-06
Entry compiled byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>

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