Re: The difference between SSLeay and OpenSSL??

From: Andreas Wollschlaeger (postmaster@1.0.0.127.in-addr.arpa)
Date: 03/30/02 

From: Andreas Wollschlaeger <postmaster@1.0.0.127.in-addr.arpa>
Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2002 18:46:34 +0100

Derek Whitten wrote:

> SSLeay is a perl module and openssl is openssl

Well, i agree to the second :-)

>
> www.openssl.org
>
>> Eric A. Young wrote SSLeay, therefore the name.
>>
>> Does anyone know of any other differences between these two packagea?
>>
>> Do they contain the same functionality?

Indeed, SSLeay was the original library writen by E.A.Young. When he
decided to no longer maintain SSLeay (he was hired by RSA, i think), a new
group took the codebase, renamed the project to OpenSSL and happily
improved it since then. So SSLeay is mainly of historical interest and
OpenSSL is the actual and "living" version!

Greetings
Andreas 

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