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Harondel J. Sibble (help@pdscc.com)
Fri, 1 Jan 1999 10:16:57 -0800
C2Net, producer of the popular Stronghold product, in conjunction
with Ralf S. Engelschall, author of the popular mod_ssl and mod_rewrite
modules for Apache, together announce the creation of the OpenSSL
Project.
The OpenSSL Project has been created in order to preserve the
existence and continued support of a free SSL/TLS library for commercial
and non-commercial use, in light of recent developments with the currently
popular SSLeay package. Therefore, C2Net has been planning for some
time
the creation of a true Open Source project for the maintenance of a
SSL/TLS toolkit, known as "OpenSSL".
This project has been planned because there have been no recent
updates to SSLeay, and we are concerned that SSLeay may no longer be
maintained. Just as when NCSA HTTPD was no longer being maintained,
the
Apache Group took over maintanence of the server, we created the
OpenSSL
Group because we're concerned that it may no longer be currently
maintained.
While we had been hoping to delay our announcement until we had a
release finished with some significant added functionality, Ben Laurie's
recent announcement forced our hand. We don't want to see a division of
effort in the community, so we felt it important that we make this
announcement now. We plan to make a more formal announcement after
the New
Year.
OpenSSL will be a SSLeay-derived product, released under an
Apache-style license. We will append to the end of this message the text
of the license we plan to use.
We will be distributing the software and documentation from a
website outside the United States at http://www.OpenSSL.org/.
The initial release will be OpenSSL v0.9.1c, based on a
C2Net-internal version of SSLeay developed with funding from C2Net. In
short order we'll have a public CVS tree setup and will be contributing a
number of other patches and modifications to the OpenSSL toolkit.
Please contact us if you have SSLeay patches and improvements
which you would like to contribute to the OpenSSL project.
Feel free to contact me if you have any questions. I can be
reached at sameer@c2.net, or by phone at +1 510 986 8770.
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Harondel J. Sibble
Sibble Computer Consulting
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