#1 most frequent
United States of America
56.7%645 installations of 1,138
What is OpenSSL?
OpenSSL is a toolkit for the Transport Layer Security (TLS) and Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocols. It is also a general-purpose cryptography library.
Categories & Use Cases
Product Demos
Who Buys & Uses OpenSSL
#2 most frequent
Canada
6.2%70 installations of 1,138
#3 most frequent
France
5.2%59 installations of 1,138
OpenSSL provides robust cryptographic services and is widely supported
Pros
- integrates into just about everything
- codebase is well managed and follows predictable paths
- although there are alternatives, OpenSSL is vastly better supported
Cons
- the entire project could be completely refactored while preserving the library apis
- the documentation on command line usage is not usually the best
- code examples are not very well explained
Most Important Features
- stays up to date with CVEs
- well supported code
- found in almost everything
Return on Investment
- roi is hard to measure for openssl. It's not that it doesn't provide a significant roi, but it is in the background of an application, not the foreground.
Other Software Used
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