initialization (that is before starting any threads).
There are several reasons why calling the OpenSSL configuration routines is
-advisable. For example new ENGINE functionality was added to OpenSSL 0.9.7.
-In OpenSSL 0.9.7 control functions can be supported by ENGINEs, this can be
-used (among other things) to load dynamic ENGINEs from shared libraries (DSOs).
+advisable. For example, to load dynamic ENGINEs from shared libraries (DSOs).
However very few applications currently support the control interface and so
very few can load and use dynamic ENGINEs. Equally in future more sophisticated
ENGINEs will require certain control operations to customize them. If an
=head1 SEE ALSO
-L<conf(5)|conf(5)>,
-L<CONF_modules_load_file(3)|CONF_modules_load_file(3)>,
-L<CONF_modules_free(3)|CONF_modules_free(3)>
-
-=head1 HISTORY
-
-OPENSSL_config() and OPENSSL_no_config() first appeared in OpenSSL 0.9.7
+L<conf(5)>,
+L<CONF_modules_load_file(3)>,
+L<CONF_modules_free(3)>
=cut