On Mon, Jan 12, 2004, vishnu vardhan wrote: > > Hi RUSHI, > Thanks for your information.I am working in a compony and my > boss told me to learn openssl.I dont know why i am learning it what is the > use of it.Unfortunately i dont know SSL2/SSL3. > You please tell me how should i proceed starting from Openssl defination. >
What you need to learn really depends on what you want to do with OpenSSL. Just "learning OpenSSL" is rather a large task, I've been working on OpenSSL development for several years now and I still occasionally get surprised by some piece of code I'm not aware of. Despite the name OpenSSL is a general purpose PKI/cryptographic library. It can of course be used for SSL/TLS (a means of encrypting data over internet connections, among other things) but also S/MIME (one type of encrypted email) certificate generation and OCSP (those last few cases would take several pages to explain) as well as general purpose encryption and decryption using various algorithms. Steve. -- Dr Stephen N. Henson. Email, S/MIME and PGP keys: see homepage OpenSSL project core developer and freelance consultant. Funding needed! Details on homepage. Homepage: http://www.drh-consultancy.demon.co.uk ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
