[f45b1953] | 1 | <sect2>
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| 2 | <title>Contents</title>
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| 3 |
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[b5e95905] | 4 | <para>The <application>openssl</application> package contains <command>
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| 5 | c_rehash</command>, <command>openssl</command>, <filename
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[959892a3] | 6 | class='libraryfile'>libcrypto</filename> libraries and <filename
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| 7 | class='libraryfile'>libssl</filename> libraries.</para>
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[f45b1953] | 8 |
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| 9 | </sect2>
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| 10 |
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| 11 | <sect2><title>Description</title>
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| 12 |
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| 13 | <sect3><title>c_rehash</title>
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| 14 |
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[b5e95905] | 15 | <para><command>c_rehash</command> is a <application>perl</application> script
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| 16 | that scans all files in a directory and adds symbolic links to their hash
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| 17 | values.</para>
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[f45b1953] | 18 |
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| 19 | </sect3>
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| 20 |
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| 21 | <sect3><title>openssl</title>
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| 22 |
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[b5e95905] | 23 | <para>The <command>openssl</command> program is a command line tool for using
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| 24 | the various cryptography functions of <application>OpenSSL</application>'s
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| 25 | crypto library from the shell. It can be used for various functions which are
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| 26 | documented in <command>man 1 openssl</command>.</para>
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[f45b1953] | 27 |
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| 28 | </sect3>
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| 29 |
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| 30 | <sect3><title>libcrypto</title>
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| 31 |
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[b5e95905] | 32 | <para>The <application>OpenSSL</application> crypto library implements a wide
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| 33 | range of cryptographic algorithms used in various Internet standards. The
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| 34 | services provided by this library are used by the <application>OpenSSL
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| 35 | </application> implementations of <acronym>SSL</acronym>, <acronym>TLS
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| 36 | </acronym> and <acronym>S/MIME</acronym>, and they have also been used to
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| 37 | implement <application>OpenSSH</application>, <application>OpenPGP
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| 38 | </application>, and other cryptographic standards.</para>
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[f45b1953] | 39 |
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| 40 | </sect3>
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| 41 |
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| 42 | <sect3><title>libssl</title>
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| 43 |
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[b5e95905] | 44 | <para>The <application>OpenSSL</application> <acronym>SSL</acronym> library
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| 45 | implements the Secure Sockets Layer (<acronym>SSL</acronym> v2/v3) and
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| 46 | Transport Layer Security (<acronym>TLS</acronym> v1) protocols. It provides a
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| 47 | rich <acronym>API</acronym>, documentation on which can be found by running
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[b68dce5] | 48 | <command>man 3 ssl</command>.</para>
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[f45b1953] | 49 |
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| 50 | </sect3>
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| 51 |
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| 52 | </sect2>
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| 53 |
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