The OpenSSL Project is a collaborative effort to develop a robust, commercial-grade, full-featured,
and Open Source toolkit implementing the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL v2/v3) and Transport Layer Security (TLS v1)
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 A. Young and Tim J. 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. From authors points of view, its the basic to build a secure Unix-Server with Opensource Software, its needed
for all major products like mod_ssl, OpenSSH and lot of other stuff that provides encrypted Data-processing |