- SSLeay 0.8.1b 29-Jun-1998
- Copyright (c) 1997, Eric Young
- All rights reserved.
-
-This directory contains Eric Young's (eay@cryptsoft.com) implementation
-of SSL and supporting libraries.
-
-The current version of this library is available from
- ftp://ftp.psy.uq.oz.au/pub/Crypto/SSL/SSLeay-x.x.x.tar.gz
-
-There are patches to a number of internet applications which can be found in
- ftp://ftp.psy.uq.oz.au/pub/Crypto/SSLapps/
-
-A Web page containing the SSLeay FAQ written by Tim Hudson <tjh@cryptsoft.com>
-can be found at
- http://www.psy.uq.oz.au/~ftp/Crypto
-
-Additional documentation is being slowly written by Eric Young, and is being
-added to http://www.cryptsoft.com/ssleay/doc. It will normally also be
-available on http://www.psy.uq.oz.au/~ftp/Crypto/ssleay
-
-This Library and programs are FREE for commercial and non-commercial
-usage. The only restriction is that I must be attributed with the
-development of this code. See the COPYRIGHT file for more details.
-Donations would still be accepted :-).
-
-THIS LIBRARY IS NOT %100 COMPATABLE WITH SSLeay 0.6.6
-
-The package includes
-
-libssl.a:
- My implementation of SSLv2, SSLv3 and the required code to support
- both SSLv2 and SSLv3 in the one server.
-
-libcrypto.a:
- General encryption and X509 stuff needed by SSL but not
- actually logically part of it. It includes routines for the following:
-
- Ciphers
- libdes - My libdes DES encryption package which has been floating
- around the net for a few years. It includes 15
- 'modes/variations' of DES (1, 2 and 3 key versions of ecb,
- cbc, cfb and ofb; pcbc and a more general form of cfb and ofb)
- including desx in cbc mode,
- a fast crypt(3), and routines to read passwords from the
- keyboard.
- RC4 encryption,
- RC2 encryption - 4 different modes, ecb, cbc, cfb and ofb.
- Blowfish encryption - 4 different modes, ecb, cbc, cfb and ofb.
- IDEA encryption - 4 different modes, ecb, cbc, cfb and ofb.
-
- Digests
- MD5 and MD2 message digest algorithms, fast implementations,
- SHA (SHA-0) and SHA-1 message digest algorithms,
- MDC2 message digest. A DES based hash that is polular on smart cards.
-
- Public Key
- RSA encryption/decryption/generation. There is no limit
- on the number of bits.
- DSA encryption/decryption/generation. There is no limit on the
- number of bits.
- Diffie-Hellman key-exchange/key generation. There is no limit
- on the number of bits.
-
- X509v3 certificates
- X509 encoding/decoding into/from binary ASN1 and a PEM
- based ascii-binary encoding which supports encryption with
- a private key.
- Program to generate RSA and DSA certificate requests and to
- generate RSA and DSA certificates.
-
- Systems
- The normal digital envelope routines and base64 encoding.
- Higher level access to ciphers and digests by name. New ciphers can be
- loaded at run time.
- The BIO io system which is a simple non-blocking IO abstraction.
- Current methods supported are file descriptors, sockets,
- socket accept, socket connect, memory buffer, buffering,
- SSL client/server, file pointer, encryption, digest,
- non-blocking testing and null.
- Data structures
- A dynamically growing hashing system
- A simple stack.
- A Configuration loader that uses a format similar to MS .ini files.
-
-Programs in this package include
- enc - a general encryption program that can encrypt/decrypt using
- one of 17 different cipher/mode combinations. The
- input/output can also be converted to/from base64
- ascii encoding.
- dgst - a generate message digesting program that will generate
- message digests for any of md2, md5, sha (sha-0 or sha-1)
- or mdc2.
- asn1parse - parse and display the structure of an asn1 encoded
- binary file.
- rsa - Manipulate RSA private keys.
- dsa - Manipulate DSA private keys.
- dh - Manipulate Diffie-Hellman parameter files.
- dsaparam- Manipulate and generate DSA parameter files.
- crl - Manipulate certificate revocation lists.
- crt2pkcs7- Generate a pkcs7 object containing a crl and a certificate.
- x509 - Manipulate x509 certificates, self-sign certificates.
- req - Manipulate PKCS#10 certificate requests and also
- generate certificate requests.
- genrsa - Generates an arbitrary sized RSA private key.
- gendh - Generates a set of Diffie-Hellman parameters, the prime
- will be a strong prime.
- ca - Create certificates from PKCS#10 certificate requests.
- This program also maintains a database of certificates
- issued.
- verify - Check x509 certificate signatures.
- speed - Benchmark SSLeay's ciphers.
- s_server- A test SSL server.
- s_client- A test SSL client.
- s_time - Benchmark SSL performance of SSL server programs.
- errstr - Convert from SSLeay hex error codes to a readable form.
-
-Documents avaliable are
- A Postscript and html reference manual
- (written by Tim Hudson tjh@cryptsoft.com).
-
- A list of text protocol references I used.
- An initial version of the library manual.