> For things that the peer support forum and the existing documentation don't cover, you have the source code, which is definitive.

The source code can tell you what it DOES do - but the cost of understanding that can be very high in some cases, and the problem domain of OpenSSL almost guarantees it.

But what raw source will not tell you is WHY it does what it does, or what the INTENT was when it was written, or what non-obvious assumptions are in play and necessary for correct operation.

Nor does it tell you how to use it, and that is not necessarily obvious from the source code, even if it contains embedded documentation (comments) that address the points above.
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