developerWorks: Secure Programming with the OpenSSL API

“The documentation to the OpenSSL API is a little vague. Not
many tutorials on the use of OpenSSL exist either, so getting it to
work in applications can be a little troublesome for beginners. So
how can you implement a basic secure connection using OpenSSL? This
guide will help to solve that problem.

“Part of the problem with learning how to implement OpenSSL is
the fact that the documentation is not complete. An incomplete API
documentation normally keeps developers from using the API, which
normally spells doom for it. Yet OpenSSL is still around and going
strong. Why…?”

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