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SSLeay
Original author(s)Eric Andrew Young, Tim J. Hudson
Initial release1995?
TypeSecure Sockets Layer3.0 implementation
LicenseSSLeay License

SSLeayis an open-sourceSSLimplementation. It was developed by Eric Andrew Young[1]and Tim J. Hudson as an SSL 3.0 implementation usingRC2andRC4encryption.[2]The recommended pronunciation is to say each letter s-s-l-e-a-y and was first developed by Eric A. Young ( "eay" ).[3]SSLeay also included an implementation of theDESfrom earlier work by Eric Young which was believed to be the first open-source implementation of DES. Development of SSLeay unofficially mostly ended, and volunteers forked the project under theOpenSSLbanner around December 1998, when Hudson and Young both commenced working forRSA Securityin Australia.

SSLeay[edit]

SSLeay was developed by Eric A. Young, starting in 1995. Windows support was added by Tim J. Hudson. Patches to open source applications to support SSL using SSLeay were produced by Tim Hudson. Development by Young and Hudson ceased in 1998. The SSLeay library and codebase is licensed under its own SSLeay License, a form offree software license.[2][3][4]The SSLeay License is a BSD-styleopen-source license,almost identical to a four-clauseBSD license.[5]

SSLeay supportsX.509v3 certificates andPKCS#10 certificate requests.[6]It supports SSL2 and SSL3.[7]Also supported isTLSv1.[8]

The first secure FTP implementation was created under BSD using SSLeay by Tim Hudson.[1]

The first open source Certifying Authority implementation was created with CGI scripts using SSLeay by Clifford Heath.

Forks[edit]

OpenSSLis a fork and successor project to SSLeay and has a similar interface to it.[3][9]After Young and Hudson joined RSA Corporation, volunteers forked SSLeay and continued development as OpenSSL.[2]

BSAFE SSL-Cis a fork of SSLeay developed by Eric A. Young and Tim J. Hudson for RSA Corporation. It was released as part ofBSAFE SSL-C.[2][10]

References[edit]

  1. ^abDavid Ross (1999). "An Implementation of Secure FTP".Proceedings of Open Source AUUG '99.p. 96.
  2. ^abcdSimson Garfinkel, Gene Spafford (2002).Web Security, Privacy & Commerce.O'Reilly. p.114.ISBN0596000456.
  3. ^abcDavid Gourley, Brian Totty (2002).HTTP: The Definitive Guide.O'Reilly. p.329.ISBN1565925092.
  4. ^Eric A. Young (1998).SSLeay License.
  5. ^OpenSSL Project (1999).LICENSE.{{cite book}}:|work=ignored (help)
  6. ^Sokratis Katsikas (1997).Communications and Multimedia Security.Springer. p. 54.ISBN0412817705.
  7. ^Mohammed J. Kabir (1999).Apache Server: Administrator's Handbook.IDG. p. 402.ISBN0764533061.
  8. ^Man Young Rhee (2003).Internet Security: Cryptographic Principles, Algorithms and Protocols.Wiley. p. 277.ISBN0470852852.
  9. ^Bryan Hong (2006).Building an Internet Server With Freebsd 6.Unorthodocs. p. 105.ISBN9781411695740.
  10. ^RSA Data Security (1999)."RSA Introduces BSAFE SSL-C for Worldwide Markets".PR Newswire.

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