-OpenSSL - Port To The Macintosh
-===============================
+OpenSSL - Port To The Macintosh OS 9 or Earlier
+===============================================
-Thanks to Roy Wood <roy@centricsystems.ca> initial support for MacOS (pre
+Thanks to Roy Wood <roy@centricsystems.ca> initial support for Mac OS (pre
X) is now provided. "Initial" means that unlike other platforms where you
get an SDK and a "swiss army" openssl application, on Macintosh you only
get one sample application which fetches a page over HTTPS(*) and dumps it
BSD sockets and some other POSIX APIs. The GUSI distribution is
expected to be found in the same directory as openssl source tree,
i.e. in the parent directory to the one where this very file,
- namely INSTALL.MacOS. For more informations about GUSI, see
+ namely INSTALL.MacOS. For more information about GUSI, see
http://www.iis.ee.ethz.ch/~neeri/macintosh/gusi-qa.html
Finally some essential comments from our generous contributor:-)
With OpenSSL 0.9.6, a new component has been added to support external
crypto devices, for example accelerator cards. The component is called
ENGINE, and has still a pretty experimental status and almost no
- documentation. It's designed to be faily easily extensible by the
+ documentation. It's designed to be fairly easily extensible by the
calling programs.
There's currently built-in support for the following crypto devices:
No external crypto device is chosen unless you say so. You have actively
tell the openssl utility commands to use it through a new command line
switch called "-engine". And if you want to use the ENGINE library to
- do something similar, you must also explicitely choose an external crypto
+ do something similar, you must also explicitly choose an external crypto
device, or the built-in crypto routines will be used, just as in the
default OpenSSL distribution.
PROBLEMS
========
- It seems like the ENGINE part doesn't work too well with Cryptoswift on
+ It seems like the ENGINE part doesn't work too well with CryptoSwift on
Win32. A quick test done right before the release showed that trying
"openssl speed -engine cswift" generated errors. If the DSO gets enabled,
an attempt is made to write at memory address 0x00000002.