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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.
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| | Version 0.9.7d (stable) released on 2004-03-25 | | | Licensed under OpenSSL License. | | This is not a GNU package. |
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DocumentationUser FAQ included; User manpage included and available in HTML format from http://www.openssl.org/docs/
Support contacts
Project contacts
| Maintainers | |
| Developers | - Eric A. Young (eay@cryptsoft.com)
- Tim J. Hudson (tjh@cryptsoft.com)
- OpenSSL Project Team <openssl@openssl.org>
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Related information
| Source repository | http://www.openssl.org/source/repos.html |
| Interfaces | library, command line |
| Programs | SSL library, Crypto library, openssl command line tool |
| Source languages | C, Perl |
| Use requirements | Perl 5 |
| Build prerequisites | make |
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