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 Copyright (c) 1998-2018 The OpenSSL Project
 Copyright (c) 1995-1998 Eric A. Young, Tim J. Hudson
 The OpenSSL Project is a collaborative effort to develop a robust,
 commercial-grade, fully featured, and Open Source toolkit implementing the
 Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocols (including SSLv3) as well as a
 full-strength general purpose cryptographic library.
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 OpenSSL is descended from the SSLeay library developed by Eric A. Young
 and Tim J. Hudson.  The OpenSSL toolkit is licensed under a dual-license (the
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 OpenSSL license plus the SSLeay license), which means that you are free to
 get and use it for commercial and non-commercial purposes as long as you
 fulfill the conditions of both licenses.
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 libssl (with platform specific naming):
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     Provides the client and server-side implementations for SSLv3 and TLS.
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 libcrypto (with platform specific naming):
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     Provides general cryptographic and X.509 support needed by SSL/TLS but
     not logically part of it.
 openssl:
     A command line tool that can be used for:
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        Creation of key parameters
        Creation of X.509 certificates, CSRs and CRLs
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        Calculation of message digests
        Encryption and decryption
        SSL/TLS client and server tests
        Handling of S/MIME signed or encrypted mail
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        And more...
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 See the appropriate file:
        INSTALL         Linux, Unix, Windows, OpenVMS, ...
        NOTES.*         INSTALL addendums for different platforms
 SUPPORT
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 See the OpenSSL website www.openssl.org for details on how to obtain
 commercial technical support. Free community support is available through the
 openssl-users email list (see
 https://www.openssl.org/community/mailinglists.html for further details).
 If you have any problems with OpenSSL then please take the following steps
 first:

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    - Download the latest version from the repository
      to see if the problem has already been addressed
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    - Configure with no-asm
    - Remove compiler optimization flags
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 If you wish to report a bug then please include the following information
 and create an issue on GitHub:
    - OpenSSL version: output of 'openssl version -a'
    - Configuration data: output of 'perl configdata.pm --dump'
    - OS Name, Version, Hardware platform
    - Compiler Details (name, version)
    - Application Details (name, version)
    - Problem Description (steps that will reproduce the problem, if known)
    - Stack Traceback (if the application dumps core)
 Just because something doesn't work the way you expect does not mean it
 is necessarily a bug in OpenSSL. Use the openssl-users email list for this type
 of query.
 HOW TO CONTRIBUTE TO OpenSSL
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 See CONTRIBUTING
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 LEGALITIES
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 A number of nations restrict the use or export of cryptography. If you
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 are potentially subject to such restrictions you should seek competent
 professional legal advice before attempting to develop or distribute
 cryptographic code.