OpenSSL is a library and, as such, doesn't come with its own installer (at least not the official distribution), so question is where / what you ran to 'install and UNinstall OpenSSL'.
On Win32/64 platforms, the problem you describe generally stems from some uninstaller (for application XYZ) deleting the shared libeay32.dll / ssleay32.dll binary files, which form the core of the [dynamic] OpenSSL library. To get those two DLLs back (if they have gone to Heaven indeed: search your system drive!), you'll need to recreate those DLLs (if you built them from source) or get them from a source/site you trust not to provide tampered DLLs. Sometimes the easiest way out is to reinstall a tiny application whose installer places those two DLLs in the proper directory again (98% of cases: directory = %SystemRoot%\system32\ ). Yet you see: this is where I wave my hands: YMMV. And watch for the proper version being installed again then; preferably the latest stable 0.9.8. (0.9.8j) > I found this odd, but I haven't yet found a way to fix it. Is this > something easy I've simply missed or something more serious? I'd say that's pretty serious. A definite case of 'whoops!' Alas, Win [un]installers have a hard time to detect if the DLLs they install are shared with other applications and should be uninstalled or not when the app is uninstalled. (Did I say the 'crufty' word yet while referring to this OS?) Caveat: the above, of course, assumes your problem is not due to that other 2% of causes. ;-) On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 5:24 AM, Ben Dimick <bendim...@verizon.net> wrote: > I hope I'm coming to the right place for this. I installed OpenSSL > on my Vista box and found after I uninstalled that SSL no longer > worked on any of my apps besides Firefox (https on I.E., WebEx, etc). > I found this odd, but I haven't yet found a way to fix it. Is this > something easy I've simply missed or something more serious? > > -- > Best regards, > Ben Dimick > bendim...@verizon.net > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org > User Support Mailing List openssl-users@openssl.org > Automated List Manager majord...@openssl.org > > > -- Met vriendelijke groeten / Best regards, Ger Hobbelt -------------------------------------------------- web: http://www.hobbelt.com/ http://www.hebbut.net/ mail: g...@hobbelt.com mobile: +31-6-11 120 978 -------------------------------------------------- ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List openssl-users@openssl.org Automated List Manager majord...@openssl.org
