2 #use wml::openssl area=title page=home
4 <title>The Open Source toolkit for SSL/TLS</title>
6 <h1>Welcome to the OpenSSL Project</h1>
8 The OpenSSL Project is a collaborative effort to develop a robust,
9 commercial-grade, full-featured, and <a href="http://www.opensource.org/">Open
10 Source</a> toolkit implementing the
11 Secure Sockets Layer (SSL v2/v3)
13 Layer Security (TLS) protocols as well as a full-strength general
14 purpose cryptography library.
15 The project is managed by a worldwide community of volunteers that
16 use the Internet to communicate, plan, and develop the OpenSSL toolkit and its
17 related documentation.
20 OpenSSL is based on the excellent SSLeay library developed by Eric Young
21 and Tim Hudson. The OpenSSL toolkit <a href="$(ROOT)/source/license.html">is
24 licence, which basically means that you are free to get and use it for
25 commercial and non-commercial purposes subject to some simple license
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