The OpenSSL Project is a collaborative effort to develop a robust, commercial-grade, full-featured, and Open Source toolkit implementing the Transport Layer Security (TLS) and Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocols as well as a full-strength general purpose cryptography library. The project is managed by a worldwide community of volunteers that use the Internet to communicate, plan, and develop the OpenSSL toolkit and its related documentation. OpenSSL is based on the excellent SSLeay library developed by Eric Young and Tim Hudson. The OpenSSL toolkit is licensed under an Apache-style license, which basically means that you are free to get and use it for commercial and non-commercial purposes subject to some simple license conditions.
README This file
fingerprints.txt PGP fingerprints of authoried release signers
standards.txt Moved to the web, https://www.openssl.org/docs/standards.html
HOWTO/ A few how-to documents; not necessarily up-to-date apps/ The openssl command-line tools; start with openssl.pod ssl/ The SSL library; start with ssl.pod crypto/ The cryptographic library; start with crypto.pod
Formatted versions of the manpages (apps,ssl,crypto) can be found at https://www.openssl.org/docs/manpages.html
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The OpenSSL Project is a collaborative effort to develop a robust, commercial-grade, full-featured, and Open Source toolkit implementing the Transport Layer Security (TLS) and Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocols as well as a full-strength general purpose cryptography library. The project is managed by a worldwide community of volunteers that use the Internet to communicate, plan, and develop the OpenSSL toolkit and its related documentation. OpenSSL is based on the excellent SSLeay library developed by Eric Young and Tim Hudson. The OpenSSL toolkit is licensed under an Apache-style license, which basically means that you are free to get and use it for commercial and non-commercial purposes subject to some simple license conditions.
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