I would applaud the effort to create better (and more tutorial-style) documentation.
It would also be great to bring the documentation and examples up to date. [Description: cid:[email protected]] -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Friday, November 14, 2014 8:03 AM To: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: RE: Improving Developer Documentation There is a vast quantity of OpenSSL information on the Internet. There's even an O'Reilly book: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Network-Security-OpenSSL-Cryptography-Communications/dp/059600270X This looks like a good one to start with: http://www.rtfm.com/openssl-examples/part1.pdf Whether they could all be better linked from the OpenSSL wiki is a different question of course :) Good luck! > Message Received: Nov 14 2014, 01:58 AM > From: "Casey Dunham" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Cc: > Subject: Improving Developer Documentation > > Greetings, > > I have just subscribed and hopefully I am not breaking any list > etiquette here, but I wanted to respond to the thread that was started > back in April on Improving the Documentation for OpenSSL. > > http://marc.info/?l=openssl-dev&m=139832883828644 > > I am a developer (BS CS, Minor in Math) but not up to speed with the > OpenSSL library and more to my immediate interests, the cryptographic > library that is part of OpenSSL. > > I am looking at using it in an upcoming project, but I definitely need > to learn more about crypto. > > However, getting started with OpenSSL from reading the main project > page at openssl.org and the wiki leaves a bit to be desired. The wiki > was very useful however as it was the only place I could find usage > examples ;) > > It took me a while to get started with a simple example and just > getting an overview of the API is not easy (yes the source code which I am > using). > > I also noticed that some of the code examples need to be updated. > > So I think that there are really three different areas of > documentation that would be useful: > > - User documentation for the command line applications > - Developer documentation for the OpenSSL / Crypto APIs > - Up to date code examples for the usage of the APIs > > Having a single online resource for this would be great (unless I am > completely missing a resource here). > > My main incentive is to provide a resource that developers could use > to get started with the API quickly while also providing inline best > practices and good coding examples. > > I have sent an email requesting access to the wiki and am interested > in helping out where I can. > > Sorry for the long message! > > Regards, > Casey > ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org Development Mailing List [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Automated List Manager [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
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