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The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 01:18:02
Ben Laurie (ben@algroup.co.uk)
Wed, 6 Jan 1999 17:03:02 -0500
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| | | | '_ \/ _ \ '_ \\___ \___ \| | The Open Source toolkit for SSL/TLS
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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-XXX@openssl.org) 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 majordomo@openssl.org 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
-- http://www.apache-ssl.org/ben.html"My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there." - Indira Gandhi
The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 01:18:02