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General-purpose toolkit implementing TLS, DTLS, and QUIC protocols on top of a standalone cryptographic library and CLI.

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OpenSSL is the long-standing reference TLS and crypto library, used as the basis for many systems and applications. It includes libssl, libcrypto usable independently, a FIPS-validated module, and a command-line tool for certificates, digests, and encryption.

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2026-10-20 · 30,995 ★ 2026-10-24 · 31,041 ★
LanguageC
LicenseApache-2.0
Created2013-01-15 (13y ago)
Last push1d ago
Watchers1.0k
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