Re: newbie what is openssl used for?

2001-01-22 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Sunday 21 January 2001, at 23 h 48, the keyboard of "Ron" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do openssl users still have to pay for services like verisign. Of course :-) Verisign is not a charity, not even a political party fighting for free software. We self-sign our certificate for this reason.

Re: newbie what is openssl used for?

2001-01-22 Thread Shridhar Bhat
Ron wrote: Hello, I would like to know what is the advantage of using openssl. Do openssl users still have to pay for services like verisign. I have looked on the opensll site but my English is not that good, if someone can give me a simple explanation it would be very much

RE: newbie what is openssl used for?

2001-01-22 Thread Dale Peakall
OpenSSL is a library used for developing applications that can communicate using the SSL/TLS link-layer encryption facilities. Link-layer encryption can be used to carry any other protocol. This is demonstrated by the 'stunnel' application that can be used to transparently add SSL encryption to

Re: newbie what is openssl used for?

2001-01-22 Thread Michael H. Warfield
On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 04:19:59PM +0530, Shridhar Bhat wrote: Ron wrote: Hello, I would like to know what is the advantage of using openssl. Do openssl users still have to pay for services like verisign. I have looked on the opensll site but my English is not that good, if