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2306196Sjkim OpenSSL 1.0.1u 22 Sep 2016
355714Skris
4291721Sjkim Copyright (c) 1998-2015 The OpenSSL Project
555714Skris Copyright (c) 1995-1998 Eric A. Young, Tim J. Hudson
655714Skris All rights reserved.
755714Skris
855714Skris DESCRIPTION
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1055714Skris
1155714Skris The OpenSSL Project is a collaborative effort to develop a robust,
1255714Skris commercial-grade, fully featured, and Open Source toolkit implementing the
13291721Sjkim Secure Sockets Layer (SSLv3) and Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocols as
14291721Sjkim well as a full-strength general purpose cryptograpic library. The project is
15291721Sjkim managed by a worldwide community of volunteers that use the Internet to
16291721Sjkim communicate, plan, and develop the OpenSSL toolkit and its related
17291721Sjkim documentation.
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19291721Sjkim OpenSSL is descended from the SSLeay library developed by Eric A. Young
2055714Skris and Tim J. Hudson.  The OpenSSL toolkit is licensed under a dual-license (the
21291721Sjkim OpenSSL license plus the SSLeay license), which means that you are free to
22291721Sjkim get and use it for commercial and non-commercial purposes as long as you
23291721Sjkim fulfill the conditions of both licenses.
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2555714Skris OVERVIEW
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2855714Skris The OpenSSL toolkit includes:
2955714Skris
3055714Skris libssl.a:
31291721Sjkim     Provides the client and server-side implementations for SSLv3 and TLS.
3255714Skris
3355714Skris libcrypto.a:
34291721Sjkim     Provides general cryptographic and X.509 support needed by SSL/TLS but
35291721Sjkim     not logically part of it.
3655714Skris
37160814Ssimon openssl:
3859191Skris     A command line tool that can be used for:
39291721Sjkim        Creation of key parameters
40160814Ssimon        Creation of X.509 certificates, CSRs and CRLs
41291721Sjkim        Calculation of message digests
42291721Sjkim        Encryption and decryption
43291721Sjkim        SSL/TLS client and server tests
4459191Skris        Handling of S/MIME signed or encrypted mail
45291721Sjkim        And more...
4655714Skris
4755714Skris INSTALLATION
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50291721Sjkim See the appropriate file:
51291721Sjkim        INSTALL         Linux, Unix, etc.
52291721Sjkim        INSTALL.DJGPP   DOS platform with DJGPP
53291721Sjkim        INSTALL.NW      Netware
54291721Sjkim        INSTALL.OS2     OS/2
55291721Sjkim        INSTALL.VMS     VMS
56291721Sjkim        INSTALL.W32     Windows (32bit)
57291721Sjkim        INSTALL.W64     Windows (64bit)
58291721Sjkim        INSTALL.WCE     Windows CE
5955714Skris
60160814Ssimon SUPPORT
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6255714Skris
63291721Sjkim See the OpenSSL website www.openssl.org for details on how to obtain
64205128Ssimon commercial technical support.
65205128Ssimon
6655714Skris If you have any problems with OpenSSL then please take the following steps
6755714Skris first:
6855714Skris
6959191Skris    - Download the current snapshot from ftp://ftp.openssl.org/snapshot/
7059191Skris      to see if the problem has already been addressed
7155714Skris    - Remove ASM versions of libraries
72160814Ssimon    - Remove compiler optimisation flags
7355714Skris
7455714Skris If you wish to report a bug then please include the following information in
7555714Skris any bug report:
7655714Skris
7759191Skris    - On Unix systems:
7859191Skris        Self-test report generated by 'make report'
7959191Skris    - On other systems:
8059191Skris        OpenSSL version: output of 'openssl version -a'
8159191Skris        OS Name, Version, Hardware platform
8259191Skris        Compiler Details (name, version)
8359191Skris    - Application Details (name, version)
8459191Skris    - Problem Description (steps that will reproduce the problem, if known)
8559191Skris    - Stack Traceback (if the application dumps core)
8655714Skris
87291721Sjkim Email the report to:
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89291721Sjkim    rt@openssl.org
9055714Skris
91291721Sjkim In order to avoid spam, this is a moderated mailing list, and it might
92291721Sjkim take a day for the ticket to show up.  (We also scan posts to make sure
93295016Sjkim that security disclosures aren't publically posted by mistake.) Mail
94295016Sjkim to this address is recorded in the public RT (request tracker) database
95295016Sjkim (see https://www.openssl.org/community/index.html#bugs for details) and
96295016Sjkim also forwarded the public openssl-dev mailing list.  Confidential mail
97295016Sjkim may be sent to openssl-security@openssl.org (PGP key available from the
98295016Sjkim key servers).
99205128Ssimon
100291721Sjkim Please do NOT use this for general assistance or support queries.
101291721Sjkim Just because something doesn't work the way you expect does not mean it
102291721Sjkim is necessarily a bug in OpenSSL.
10359191Skris
104291721Sjkim You can also make GitHub pull requests. If you do this, please also send
105291721Sjkim mail to rt@openssl.org with a link to the PR so that we can more easily
106291721Sjkim keep track of it.
107291721Sjkim
10855714Skris HOW TO CONTRIBUTE TO OpenSSL
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111291721Sjkim See CONTRIBUTING
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113291721Sjkim LEGALITIES
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116291721Sjkim A number of nations, in particular the U.S., restrict the use or export
117291721Sjkim of cryptography. If you are potentially subject to such restrictions
118291721Sjkim you should seek competent professional legal advice before attempting to
119291721Sjkim develop or distribute cryptographic code.
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