- OpenSSL 0.9.2b 22 Mar 1999
+ OpenSSL 0.9.2b 22-Mar-1999
Copyright (c) 1998-1999 The OpenSSL Project
Copyright (c) 1995-1998 Eric A. Young, Tim J. Hudson
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Various companies hold various patents for various algorithms in various
- locations around the world. YOU are responsible for ensuring that your use of
- any algorithms is legel by checking if there are any patents in your country.
- The file contains some of the patents that we know about or are rumoured to
- exist. This is not a definitive list.
+ locations around the world. _YOU_ are responsible for ensuring that your use
+ of any algorithms is legel by checking if there are any patents in your
+ country. The file contains some of the patents that we know about or are
+ rumoured to exist. This is not a definitive list.
RSA Data Security holds software patents on the RSA and RC5 algorithms. If
their ciphers are used used inside the USA (and Japan?), you must contact RSA
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To install this package under a Unix derivative, read the INSTALL file. For
- a Win32 platform, read the INSTALL.W32 file.
+ a Win32 platform, read the INSTALL.W32 file. For OpenVMS systems, read
+ INSTALL.VMS.
For people in the USA, it is possible to compile OpenSSL to use RSA Inc.'s
- public key library, RSAref. Read doc/ssleay.txt under 'rsaref.doc' on how to
- build with RSAref.
+ public key library, RSAREF, by configuring OpenSSL with the option "rsaref".
Read the documentation in the doc/ directory. It is quite rough, but it
lists the functions, you will probably have to look at the code to work out
- Version, most of these details can be got from the
'openssl version -a' command.
Operating System Details
- - OS Name
- - OS Version
+ - On Unix systems: Output of './config -t'
+ - OS Name, Version
- Hardware platform
Compiler Details
- Name
Report the bug to the OpenSSL project at:
- openssl-users@openssl.org
+ openssl-bugs@openssl.org
+ HOW TO CONTRIBUTE TO OpenSSL
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+
+ Development is coordinated on the openssl-dev mailing list (see
+ http://www.openssl.org for information on subscribing). If you
+ would like to submit a patch, send it to openssl-dev@openssl.org.
+ Please be sure to include a textual explanation of what your patch
+ does.
+
+ The preferred format for changes is "diff -u" output. You might
+ generate it like this:
+
+ # cd openssl-work
+ # [your changes]
+ # ./Configure dist; make clean
+ # cd ..
+ # diff -urN openssl-orig openssl-work > mydiffs.patch