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1<sect2>
2<title>Contents</title>
3
4<para>The openssl package contains <userinput>c_rehash</userinput>,
5<userinput>openssl</userinput>, <userinput>libcrypto</userinput> and
6<userinput>libssl</userinput>.</para>
7
8</sect2>
9
10<sect2><title>Description</title>
11
12<sect3><title>c_rehash</title>
13
14<para>No description is available for c_rehash.</para>
15
16</sect3>
17
18<sect3><title>openssl</title>
19
20<para>The openssl program is a command line tool for using the various
21cryptography functions of OpenSSL's crypto library from the shell.
22It can be used for various functions which are documented in
23<userinput>man 1 openssl</userinput>.</para>
24
25</sect3>
26
27<sect3><title>libcrypto</title>
28
29<para>The OpenSSL crypto library implements a wide range of cryptographic
30algorithms used in various Internet standards. The services provided by
31this library are used by the OpenSSL implementations of SSL, TLS and S/MIME,
32and they have also been used to implement SSH, OpenPGP, and other
33cryptographic standards.</para>
34
35</sect3>
36
37<sect3><title>libssl</title>
38
39<para>The OpenSSL ssl library implements the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL
40v2/v3) and Transport Layer Security (TLS v1) protocols. It provides a rich
41API, documentation on which can be found by running
42<userinput>man 3 ssl</userinput>.</para>
43
44</sect3>
45
46</sect2>
47
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