Forwarded From: Ben Laurie <benat_private> ___ ____ ____ _ / _ \ _ __ ___ _ __ / ___/ ___|| | OpenSSL | | | | '_ \/ _ \ '_ \\___ \___ \| | The Open Source toolkit for SSL/TLS | |_| | |_) | __/ | | |___) |__) | |___ http://www.openssl.org/ \___/| .__/\___|_| |_|____/____/|_____| _____ |_| __________________________________________________________________ The OpenSSL Project is a collaborative effort to develop a robust, commercial-grade, fully featured, and Open Source toolkit implementing the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL v2/v3) and Transport Layer Security (TLS v1) 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 OpenSSL tookit and its related documentation. OpenSSL is based on the excellent SSLeay library developed by Eric A. Young and Tim J. Hudson. The OpenSSL toolkit is licensed under an Apache-style licence, which basically means that you are free to get and use it for commercial and non-commercial purposes subject to some simple license conditions. o Due to some unfortunate coincidences and misunderstandings Ben and Stephen launched an effort to maintain and improve SSLeay shortly before the OpenSSL effort was announced. These were seen as competing efforts - this was never really true, so the two efforts have been merged together in the interests of the user community. o The core participants in the joint effort are currently (in alphabetical order): Ben Laurie Mark Cox Paul Sutton Ralf Engelschall Stephen Henson This group jointly control the direction of the OpenSSL project in a way similar to the way the Apache Group works. Others may be invited to join in the future on the basis of merit. o Contributions are welcome, and will be appropriately credited. The source is in a CVS repository which can be mirrored through rsync://dev.openssl.org/openssl-cvs/ or browsed interactively through a Web interface under http://www.openssl.org/source/cvs/. Contributors are encouraged to generate patches based on the latest available version. o The original announcement left some doubt as to the role of C2Net in the OpenSSL project. They donated the code which we used as a basis. This code was developed by Eric Young and Tim Hudson when they worked for C2Net. They do not manage the OpenSSL project, and are only involved to the extent that some of their staff (Mark and Paul) are participants. o The OpenSSL project's code will be published under an Open Source license. This license will apply only to the modifications made by the OpenSSL team and contributors. Eric's original license will apply to the underlying SSLeay code base. The CVS tree will be available to anyone who wants it, and we will be endeavouring to release much more frequently than SSLeay was. o There are a number of mailing lists (openssl-XXXat_private) available: openssl-announce Announcements openssl-cvs CVS Commit Messages openssl-dev Developer Forum openssl-users User Support Forum Subscribe to these by sending mail to majordomoat_private with: subscribe <list name> <your email address> as the body. o We hope to make the next release of OpenSSL available in the next few weeks. In the meantime, please do pick up a snapshot and report any bugs you find. o If you have fixes or improvements, send them to us! Yours, The OpenSSL Project Team... Mark J. Cox Ralf S. Engelschall Dr. Stephen Henson Ben Laurie Paul C. Sutton -o- Subscribe: mail majordomoat_private with "subscribe isn". Today's ISN Sponsor: Internet Security Institute [www.isi-sec.com]
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