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 OpenSSL 1.1.1l 24 Aug 2021
 
 Copyright (c) 1998-2021 The OpenSSL Project
 Copyright (c) 1995-1998 Eric A. Young, Tim J. Hudson 
 All rights reserved. 
 
 DESCRIPTION 
 ----------- 
 
 The OpenSSL Project is a collaborative effort to develop a robust, 
 commercial-grade, fully featured, and Open Source toolkit implementing the 
 Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocols (including SSLv3) as well as a 
 full-strength general purpose cryptographic library. 
 
 OpenSSL is descended from the SSLeay library developed by Eric A. Young 
 and Tim J. Hudson.  The OpenSSL toolkit is licensed under a dual-license (the 
 OpenSSL license plus the SSLeay license), which means that you are free to 
 get and use it for commercial and non-commercial purposes as long as you 
 fulfill the conditions of both licenses. 
 
 OVERVIEW 
 -------- 
 
 The OpenSSL toolkit includes: 
 
 libssl (with platform specific naming): 
     Provides the client and server-side implementations for SSLv3 and TLS. 
 
 libcrypto (with platform specific naming): 
     Provides general cryptographic and X.509 support needed by SSL/TLS but 
     not logically part of it. 
 
 openssl: 
     A command line tool that can be used for: 
        Creation of key parameters 
        Creation of X.509 certificates, CSRs and CRLs 
        Calculation of message digests 
        Encryption and decryption 
        SSL/TLS client and server tests 
        Handling of S/MIME signed or encrypted mail 
        And more... 
 
 INSTALLATION 
 ------------ 
 
 See the appropriate file: 
        INSTALL         Linux, Unix, Windows, OpenVMS, ... 
        NOTES.*         INSTALL addendums for different platforms 
 
 SUPPORT 
 ------- 
 
 See the OpenSSL website www.openssl.org for details on how to obtain 
 commercial technical support. Free community support is available through the 
 openssl-users email list (see 
 https://www.openssl.org/community/mailinglists.html for further details). 
 
 If you have any problems with OpenSSL then please take the following steps 
 first: 
 
    - Download the latest version from the repository 
      to see if the problem has already been addressed 
    - Configure with no-asm 
    - Remove compiler optimization flags 
 
 If you wish to report a bug then please include the following information 
 and create an issue on GitHub: 
 
    - OpenSSL version: output of 'openssl version -a' 
    - Configuration data: output of 'perl configdata.pm --dump' 
    - OS Name, Version, Hardware platform 
    - Compiler Details (name, version) 
    - Application Details (name, version) 
    - Problem Description (steps that will reproduce the problem, if known) 
    - Stack Traceback (if the application dumps core) 
 
 Just because something doesn't work the way you expect does not mean it 
 is necessarily a bug in OpenSSL. Use the openssl-users email list for this type 
 of query. 
 
 HOW TO CONTRIBUTE TO OpenSSL 
 ---------------------------- 
 
 See CONTRIBUTING 
 
 LEGALITIES 
 ---------- 
 
 A number of nations restrict the use or export of cryptography. If you 
 are potentially subject to such restrictions you should seek competent 
 professional legal advice before attempting to develop or distribute 
 cryptographic code.