Permit null ciphers.

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- OpenTLS 0.9.1c 22-Dec-1998
+ OpenSSL 0.9.2 31-Dec-1998
 
- Copyright (c) 1998 The OpenTLS Project
- Copyright (c) 1995-1998 Eric Young
+ Copyright (c) 1998 The OpenSSL Project
+ Copyright (c) 1995-1998 Eric A. Young, Tim J. Hudson
  All rights reserved.
 
- The OpenTLS Project is a collaborative effort to develop a robust,
+ ....
+
+ The OpenSSL Project is a collaborative effort to develop a robust,
  commercial-grade, fully featured, and Open Source toolkit implementing the
  Transport Layer Security (TLS v1) and Secure Sockets Layer (SSL v2/v3)
  protocols with full-strength cryptography world-wide. The project is managed
  by a worldwide community of volunteers that use the Internet to communicate,
- plan, and develop the OpenTLS tookit and its related documentation. 
+ plan, and develop the OpenSSL tookit and its related documentation. 
 
- OpenTLS is based on the excellent SSLeay library developed from Eric A. Young
- and Tim J. Hudson.  The OpenTLS toolkit is licensed under a BSD-style licence,
+ OpenSSL is based on the excellent SSLeay library developed from Eric A. Young
+ and Tim J. Hudson.  The OpenSSL toolkit is licensed under a BSD-style licence,
  which basically means that you are free to get and use it for commercial and
  non-commercial purposes. 
 
@@ -93,27 +95,28 @@
      req     - Manipulate PKCS#10 certificate requests and also
                generate certificate requests.
      genrsa  - Generates an arbitrary sized RSA private key.
+     gendsa  - Generates DSA parameters.
      gendh   - Generates a set of Diffie-Hellman parameters, the prime
                will be a strong prime.
      ca      - Create certificates from PKCS#10 certificate requests.
                This program also maintains a database of certificates
                issued.
      verify  - Check x509 certificate signatures.
-     speed   - Benchmark SSLeay's ciphers.
+     speed   - Benchmark OpenSSL's ciphers.
      s_server- A test SSL server.
      s_client- A test SSL client.
      s_time  - Benchmark SSL performance of SSL server programs.
-     errstr  - Convert from SSLeay hex error codes to a readable form.
+     errstr  - Convert from OpenSSL hex error codes to a readable form.
+     nseq    - Netscape certificate sequence utility
         
 To install this package, read the INSTALL file.
 For the Microsoft world, read INSTALL.W32 file.
 
-For people in the USA, it is possible to compile SSLeay to use RSA Inc.'s
-public key library, RSAref.  From my understanding, it is claimed by RSA Inc.
-to be illegal to use my public key routines inside the USA.  Read
-doc/rsaref.doc on how to build with RSAref.
+For people in the USA, it is possible to compile OpenSSL to use RSA Inc.'s
+public key library, RSAref. Read doc/ssleay.txt under 'rsaref.doc' on how to
+build with RSAref.
 
 Read the documentation in the doc directory.  It is quite rough, but it lists
 the functions, you will probably have to look at the code to work out how to
-used them.  I will be working on documentation.  Look at the example programs.
+used them. Look at the example programs.