Tom Jay via RT wrote on 11/27/2015 02:39 PM:
Hello,
Why is there no meaningul documentation on the OpenSSL download page? Why,
if I'm building a SSL-enabled webserver, do I need to spend so much time on
OpenSSL specifically? Why do the other tasks, of which there are many, not
requires as much time as OpenSSL to compile, install and use, despite being
equally complex? Could you imagine having to spend as much time on
everything, that you do on OpenSSL, just to get it working?
Useful steps would be as follows:
1. Provide meaningful documentation on the download page. Some kind of
explanations of the versioning system would be useful, other than me trying
to guess what the best version for me to download and install is. 2. Provde
a summary of the installation steps. Something like Apache would be useful,
where they just give you basic steps to get you up and running. 3. Some
kind of useful examples of common usages of OpenSSL would be appreciated.
I'm still trawling through the documentation trying to figure out how to do
what I want to do and am relying heaving on 3rd party guides to figure out
what I want to do.
Thanks!
Tom
http://www.openssl.org/source/
"When building a release for the first time, please make sure to look at the
README and INSTALL files in the distribution. If you have problems, look at
the FAQ, which can also be found online."
FAQ:
http://www.openssl.org/docs/faq.html
Manpages:
http://www.openssl.org/docs/manmaster/
Or if you have the man pages installed locally --> see 'man openssl',
'man evp', 'man bio' etc. and the SEE ALSO references on those pages.
On linux desktops it is easier/recommended to use the prebuilt version
from the linux distribution (ie. via package management like on Debian:
apt-get install libcrypto++-dev libcrypto++-doc libcrypto++-utils openssl )
--
U.Mutlu
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