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4 <title>The Open Source toolkit for SSL/TLS</title>
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8 <h1>Welcome to the OpenSSL Project</h1>
10 The OpenSSL Project is a collaborative effort to develop a robust,
11 commercial-grade, full-featured, and <a href="http://www.opensource.org/">Open
12 Source</a> toolkit implementing the <a
13 href="http://www.netscape.com/eng/ssl3/">Secure Sockets Layer</a> (SSL v2/v3)
14 and <a href="http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/tls-charter.html">Transport
15 Layer Security</a> (TLS v1) protocols as well as a full-strength general
16 purpose cryptography library.
17 The project is managed by a worldwide community of volunteers that
18 use the Internet to communicate, plan, and develop the OpenSSL toolkit and its
19 related documentation.
22 OpenSSL is based on the excellent SSLeay library developed by Eric A. Young
23 and Tim J. Hudson. The OpenSSL toolkit <a href="$(ROOT)/source/license.html">is
26 licence, which basically means that you are free to get and use it for
27 commercial and non-commercial purposes subject to some simple license
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