Any good examples on programming using libssl?

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I was wondering whether someone knows any good examples of using libssl as a programming library. Its kind of annoying only digging through the code of libssl trying to make sense of it.

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score 11 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 15 '11 at 20:46

You've run into the lack of documentation problem OpenSSL has. IBM DeveloperWorks does have a couple articles about using OpenSSL:

If you want to utilize a better documented library, you can take a look at Mozilla NSS:

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/nss/#documentation

Tanks for the hint on NSS, did not know that yet – eeknay Feb 16 '11 at 07:40 — eeknay, Feb 16 '11 at 07:40

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 12 '13 at 03:07

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Just that I'm using Openssl too and think their wiki page also has some good info: http://wiki.openssl.org/index.php/Main_Page

answered Nov 12 '13 at 03:07

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yes but at the time the question came, this wiki didn't exist yet. BTW it is a WIKI then is in constant improvment. – philippe lhardy Sep 04 '14 at 20:12

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 27 '13 at 06:15

Here is a good working example that's especially useful for iOS developers:

the remail email client uses MailCore iOS email library wrapper, which in turn uses the multi-purpose libetpan email library, which in turn uses SASL, an authentication layer, which in turn uses your beloved openSSL.

So if you're a believer in the learn-by-example methodology, the above gives you a lot to work with and practice on.

Any good examples on programming using libssl?

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