OpenSSL
Tool and Usage
Project details
- Year of inception
- License
- Multi-license
- Programming language
- C
- Latest release
- openssl-3.3.0
- Latest release date
Project health
Why this tool?
This popular toolkit is used by many systems. It provides options like encryption and hashing of data, integrity testing, and digital certificates and signatures. Many software applications use the toolkit to provide support for these functions. OpenSSL also has a client utility that can be used on the command line to test, decrypt and encrypt data, and create certificates.
Usage and audience
OpenSSL is commonly used for certificate management or data encryption. Target users for this tool are developers, pentesters, security professionals, and system administrators.
Features
- Command line interface
Tool review and remarks
The review and analysis of this project resulted in the following remarks for this security tool:
Strengths
- + The source code of this software is available
- + Well-known library
Weaknesses
- - Major vulnerabilities in the past
Installation
Supported operating systems
OpenSSL is known to work on all platforms.
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Categories
This tool is categorized as a cryptography library, data encryption tool, data integrity tool, and data signing tool.