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OpenSSL
OpenSSL is an open-source library for Transport Layer Security and general-purpose Cryptography.
Overview
OpenSSL consists of two separate libraries: libcrypto and libssl. libcrypto is a general-purpose cryptography library which can be used alone. libssl is a TLS library which depends on libcrypto. OpenSSL also comes with an "openssl" command-line program, which can be used to exercise much of the functionality of the library from the command line.
libcrypto
libcrypto is the portion of OpenSSL for performing general-purpose cryptography, which can be used without libssl.
Introduction to libcrypto |
BIO
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EVP
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Keys and Certificates
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Elliptic Curve Cryptography |
Engines
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More libcrypto
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libssl
libssl is the portion of OpenSSL which supports TLS, and depends on libcrypto.
Introduction to libssl
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Configuration
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Certificate Validation
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More libssl
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command line programs
The "openssl" command line program contains a variety of sub-programs.
TODO: document all of them!
Appendices
- FIPS