The Open SSL Project is receiving an infusion of much-needed funding from the new Core Infrastructure Initiative. The move comes following the Heartbleed exploit that exposed a flaw in Open SSL, the ...

Why OpenSSL Being Patched Again Is Good News There is a new version of OpenSSL, and yes, it turns out previous versions of the security package had some serious vulnerabilities. However, these flaws ...

A tiny and relatively unknown TLS library written in Rust, an up-and-coming programming language, outperformed the industry-standard OpenSSL in almost every major category. The findings showed that ...

OpenSSL is a powerful Secure Sockets Layer cryptographic library. Apache uses it for HTTPS encryption, and OpenSSH uses it for SSH encryption. But, you don't have to use it as a library. It's also a ...