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Last change on this file since 7f8bd51 was 396508b, checked in by Randy McMurchy <randy@…>, 19 years ago

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[52d29f7]1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.3//EN"
3 "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.3/docbookx.dtd" [
4 <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
5 %general-entities;
6
7<!ENTITY openssl-download-http "http://www.openssl.org/source/openssl-&openssl-version;.tar.gz">
8<!ENTITY openssl-download-ftp "ftp://ftp.openssl.org/source/openssl-&openssl-version;.tar.gz">
[e4cac96f]9<!ENTITY openssl-size "3.0 MB">
10<!ENTITY openssl-buildsize "35 MB">
[52d29f7]11<!ENTITY openssl-time "1.16 SBU">
12]>
13
[984a23f]14<sect1 id="openssl" xreflabel="OpenSSL-&openssl-version;">
[a0f03b0]15<sect1info>
[5cd0959d]16<othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
17<date>$Date$</date>
[a0f03b0]18</sect1info>
[7f72cbf]19<?dbhtml filename="openssl.html"?>
[984a23f]20<title>OpenSSL-&openssl-version;</title>
[f45b1953]21
[52d29f7]22<sect2>
[5b5ecb9]23<title>Introduction to <application>Open<acronym>SSL</acronym></application>
24</title>
[396508b]25
[5b5ecb9]26<para>The <application>Open<acronym>SSL</acronym></application> package contains
27management tools and libraries relating to cryptography. These are useful for
28providing cryptography functions to other packages, notably
29<application>OpenSSH</application>, email applications and web browsers (for
[e4cac96f]30accessing <acronym>HTTPS</acronym> sites).</para>
[396508b]31
[52d29f7]32<sect3><title>Package information</title>
33<itemizedlist spacing='compact'>
34<listitem><para>Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&openssl-download-http;"/></para></listitem>
35<listitem><para>Download (FTP): <ulink url="&openssl-download-ftp;"/></para></listitem>
36<listitem><para>Download size: &openssl-size;</para></listitem>
[396508b]37<listitem><para>Estimated disk space required: &openssl-buildsize;</para></listitem>
[52d29f7]38<listitem><para>Estimated build time: &openssl-time;</para></listitem></itemizedlist>
39</sect3>
[5b5ecb9]40
41<sect3><title><application>Open<acronym>SSL</acronym></application>
42dependencies</title>
43<sect4><title>Optional</title>
[da4aff6]44<para><xref linkend="bc"/> (recommended
[5b5ecb9]45if you run the test suite during the build)</para></sect4>
46</sect3>
47
[52d29f7]48</sect2>
49
50<sect2>
[5b5ecb9]51<title>Installation of <application>Open<acronym>SSL</acronym></application>
52</title>
[396508b]53
[5b5ecb9]54<para>Install <application>Open<acronym>SSL</acronym></application> by running
55the following commands:</para>
[52d29f7]56
57<screen><userinput><command>sed 's/^passwd/openssl-passwd/' doc/apps/passwd.pod \
58 > doc/apps/openssl-passwd.pod &amp;&amp;
59rm doc/apps/passwd.pod &amp;&amp;
60mv doc/crypto/{,openssl_}threads.pod &amp;&amp;
61./config --openssldir=/etc/ssl --prefix=/usr shared &amp;&amp;
[24a7f96]62sed -i 's%SHLIBDIRS= fips crypto ssl%SHLIBDIRS= crypto ssl%g' Makefile &amp;&amp;
[52d29f7]63make MANDIR=/usr/share/man &amp;&amp;
64make MANDIR=/usr/share/man install &amp;&amp;
[e4cac96f]65cp -r certs /etc/ssl</command></userinput></screen>
[396508b]66
[52d29f7]67</sect2>
68
69<sect2>
70<title>Command explanations</title>
[396508b]71
[52d29f7]72<para><option>no-rc5 no-idea</option>: When added to the
73<command>./config</command> command, this will eliminate the building of those
74encryption methods. Patent licenses may be needed for you to utilize either of
75those methods in your projects.</para>
[396508b]76
[52d29f7]77<para><command>rm doc/apps/passwd.pod</command>: This command prevents
78<application>Open<acronym>SSL</acronym></application> from installing its
79passwd man page over an existing man page with the same name.</para>
[396508b]80
[52d29f7]81<para><command>mv doc/crypto/{,openssl_}threads.pod</command>: This
82commands prevents <application>Open<acronym>SSL</acronym></application> from
83overwriting an existing man page from <application>Perl</application>.</para>
[24a7f96]84
85<para><command>sed -i 's%SHLIBDIRS= fips crypto ssl%SHLIBDIRS= crypto ssl%g' Makefile</command>:
86This command prevents installation of the non-existent <filename
87class="libraryfile">libfips</filename> library.</para>
[396508b]88
[52d29f7]89<para><screen><command>make MANDIR=/usr/share/man
90make MANDIR=/usr/share/man install</command></screen> These
[5b5ecb9]91commands install <application>Open<acronym>SSL</acronym></application> with the
92man pages in <filename class='directory'>/usr/share/man</filename> instead of
93the default which is <filename class='directory'>/etc/ssl/man</filename>.</para>
[396508b]94
[5b5ecb9]95<para><command>cp -r certs /etc/ssl</command>: The certificates must be copied
96manually since the install script skips this step.</para>
[396508b]97
[52d29f7]98</sect2>
99
100<sect2>
101<title>Configuring <application>OpenSSL</application></title>
[396508b]102
[52d29f7]103<sect3><title>Config files</title>
104<para><filename>/etc/ssl/openssl.cnf</filename></para>
105</sect3>
[396508b]106
[52d29f7]107<sect3><title>Configuration Information</title>
[396508b]108
[5b5ecb9]109<para>Most people who just want to use
110<application>Open<acronym>SSL</acronym></application> for providing functions
111to other programs such as <application>Open<acronym>SSH</acronym></application>
112and web browsers won't need to worry about configuring
113<application>Open<acronym>SSL</acronym></application>. Configuring
114<application>Open<acronym>SSL</acronym></application> is an advanced topic and
[52d29f7]115so those who do would normally be expected to either know how to do it
116or to be able to find out how to do it.</para>
117</sect3>
[396508b]118
[52d29f7]119</sect2>
120
121<sect2>
122<title>Contents</title>
[396508b]123
[5b5ecb9]124<para>The <application>Open<acronym>SSL</acronym></application> package
125contains <command>c_rehash</command>, <command>openssl</command>,
126<filename class='libraryfile'>libcrypto</filename> libraries and
127<filename class='libraryfile'>libssl</filename> libraries.</para>
[396508b]128
[52d29f7]129</sect2>
[396508b]130
[52d29f7]131<sect2><title>Description</title>
[396508b]132
[52d29f7]133<sect3><title>c_rehash</title>
[396508b]134
[52d29f7]135<para><command>c_rehash</command> is a <application>Perl</application> script
136that scans all files in a directory and adds symbolic links to their hash
137values.</para>
[396508b]138
[52d29f7]139</sect3>
140
141<sect3><title>openssl</title>
[396508b]142
[52d29f7]143<para>The <command>openssl</command> program is a command-line tool for using
144the various cryptography functions of
145<application>Open<acronym>SSL</acronym></application>'s
146crypto library from the shell. It can be used for various functions which are
147documented in <command>man 1 openssl</command>.</para>
[396508b]148
[52d29f7]149</sect3>
[396508b]150
[52d29f7]151<sect3><title>libcrypto</title>
[396508b]152
[5b5ecb9]153<para>The <application>Open<acronym>SSL</acronym></application> crypto library
154implements a wide range of cryptographic algorithms used in various Internet
155standards. The services provided by this library are used by the
156<application>Open<acronym>SSL</acronym></application> implementations of
157<acronym>SSL</acronym>, <acronym>TLS</acronym> and <acronym>S/MIME</acronym>,
158and they have also been used to implement
159<application>Open<acronym>SSH</acronym></application>,
160<application>Open<acronym>PGP</acronym></application>, and other cryptographic
161standards.</para>
[396508b]162
[52d29f7]163</sect3>
[396508b]164
[52d29f7]165<sect3><title>libssl</title>
[396508b]166
[5b5ecb9]167<para>The <application>Open<acronym>SSL</acronym></application>
168<acronym>SSL</acronym> library implements the Secure Sockets Layer
169(<acronym>SSL</acronym> v2/v3) and Transport Layer Security
170(<acronym>TLS</acronym> v1) protocols. It provides a rich
171<acronym>API</acronym>, documentation on which can be found by running
[52d29f7]172<command>man 3 ssl</command>.</para>
[396508b]173
[52d29f7]174</sect3>
[396508b]175
[52d29f7]176</sect2>
[f45b1953]177
178</sect1>
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