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3a63dbef 2 OpenSSL 3.0.0-dev
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6738bf14 4 Copyright (c) 1998-2018 The OpenSSL Project
058bf559 5 Copyright (c) 1995-1998 Eric A. Young, Tim J. Hudson
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6 All rights reserved.
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8 DESCRIPTION
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f1c236f8 11 The OpenSSL Project is a collaborative effort to develop a robust,
651d0aff 12 commercial-grade, fully featured, and Open Source toolkit implementing the
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13 Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocols (including SSLv3) as well as a
14 full-strength general purpose cryptographic library.
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b06935f4 16 OpenSSL is descended from the SSLeay library developed by Eric A. Young
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17 and Tim J. Hudson.
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19 The OpenSSL toolkit is licensed under the Apache License 2.0, which means
20 that you are free to get and use it for commercial and non-commercial
21 purposes as long as you fulfill its conditions.
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23 OVERVIEW
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1c308226 26 The OpenSSL toolkit includes:
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f33d63c9 28 libssl (with platform specific naming):
b06935f4 29 Provides the client and server-side implementations for SSLv3 and TLS.
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f33d63c9 31 libcrypto (with platform specific naming):
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32 Provides general cryptographic and X.509 support needed by SSL/TLS but
33 not logically part of it.
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a2c96d88 35 openssl:
d7f0ab5f 36 A command line tool that can be used for:
b06935f4 37 Creation of key parameters
a2c96d88 38 Creation of X.509 certificates, CSRs and CRLs
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39 Calculation of message digests
40 Encryption and decryption
41 SSL/TLS client and server tests
d7f0ab5f 42 Handling of S/MIME signed or encrypted mail
b06935f4 43 And more...
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45 INSTALLATION
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b06935f4 48 See the appropriate file:
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49 INSTALL Linux, Unix, Windows, OpenVMS, ...
50 NOTES.* INSTALL addendums for different platforms
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a2c96d88 52 SUPPORT
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b06935f4 55 See the OpenSSL website www.openssl.org for details on how to obtain
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56 commercial technical support. Free community support is available through the
57 openssl-users email list (see
58 https://www.openssl.org/community/mailinglists.html for further details).
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60 If you have any problems with OpenSSL then please take the following steps
61 first:
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7954dced 63 - Download the latest version from the repository
d7f0ab5f 64 to see if the problem has already been addressed
7954dced 65 - Configure with no-asm
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68 If you wish to report a bug then please include the following information
69 and create an issue on GitHub:
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73 - OS Name, Version, Hardware platform
74 - Compiler Details (name, version)
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75 - Application Details (name, version)
76 - Problem Description (steps that will reproduce the problem, if known)
77 - Stack Traceback (if the application dumps core)
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932af161 79 Just because something doesn't work the way you expect does not mean it
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80 is necessarily a bug in OpenSSL. Use the openssl-users email list for this type
81 of query.
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83 HOW TO CONTRIBUTE TO OpenSSL
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eb05f173 86 See CONTRIBUTING
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88 LEGALITIES
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12a7715e 91 A number of nations restrict the use or export of cryptography. If you
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92 are potentially subject to such restrictions you should seek competent
93 professional legal advice before attempting to develop or distribute
94 cryptographic code.