Below please find a few patches for the OpenSSL docs -- mostly typos.
Thanks for OpenSSL!
Chris Pepper
diff -Naur openssl-0.9.6b/INSTALL.MacOS openssl-0.9.6b-patched/INSTALL.MacOS
--- openssl-0.9.6b/INSTALL.MacOS Wed Jan 5 16:06:43 2000
+++ openssl-0.9.6b-patched/INSTALL.MacOS Thu Sep 27 10:26:29 2001
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
-OpenSSL - Port To The Macintosh
-===============================
+OpenSSL - Port to the Macintosh, OS 9 or Earlier
+================================================
-Thanks to Roy Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> initial support for MacOS (pre
+Thanks to Roy Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
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:-)
diff -Naur openssl-0.9.6b/README openssl-0.9.6b-patched/README
--- openssl-0.9.6b/README Mon Jul 9 10:08:42 2001
+++ openssl-0.9.6b-patched/README Thu Sep 27 10:26:29 2001
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@
only be used with RSA Security's permission.
The IDEA algorithm is patented by Ascom in Austria, France, Germany, Italy,
- Japan, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK and the USA. They should
+ Japan, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK, and the USA. They should
be contacted if that algorithm is to be used, their web page is
http://www.ascom.ch/.
@@ -119,8 +119,8 @@
INSTALL.VMS.
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
- how to used them. Look at the example programs.
+ lists the functions; you will probably have to look at the code to work out
+ how to use them. Look at the example programs.
SUPPORT
-------
diff -Naur openssl-0.9.6b/README.ENGINE openssl-0.9.6b-patched/README.ENGINE
--- openssl-0.9.6b/README.ENGINE Sun Sep 24 10:48:51 2000
+++ openssl-0.9.6b-patched/README.ENGINE Thu Sep 27 10:25:32 2001
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
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:
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@
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.
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@
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,
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