glfs/general/genlib/openssl/openssl-desc.xml
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<sect2>
<title>Contents</title>
<para>The openssl package contains <userinput>c_rehash</userinput>,
<userinput>openssl</userinput>, <filename>libcrypto</filename> libraries and
<filename>libssl</filename> libraries.</para>
</sect2>
<sect2><title>Description</title>
<sect3><title>c_rehash</title>
<para>No description is available for c_rehash.</para>
</sect3>
<sect3><title>openssl</title>
<para>The openssl program is a command line tool for using the various
cryptography functions of OpenSSL's crypto library from the shell.
It can be used for various functions which are documented in
<userinput>man 1 openssl</userinput>.</para>
</sect3>
<sect3><title>libcrypto</title>
<para>The OpenSSL crypto library implements a wide range of cryptographic
algorithms used in various Internet standards. The services provided by
this library are used by the OpenSSL implementations of SSL, TLS and S/MIME,
and they have also been used to implement SSH, OpenPGP, and other
cryptographic standards.</para>
</sect3>
<sect3><title>libssl</title>
<para>The OpenSSL ssl library implements the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL
v2/v3) and Transport Layer Security (TLS v1) protocols. It provides a rich
API, documentation on which can be found by running
<userinput>man 3 ssl</userinput>.</para>
</sect3>
</sect2>