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OpenSSL 1.0.0 released

OpenSSL 1.0.0 released
[Development] Posted Mar 29, 2010 22:10 UTC (Mon) by corbet

OpenSSL - an encryption toolkit that many of us have been using for years - has finally announced its 1.0 release. " The OpenSSL project team is pleased to announce the release of version 1.0.0 of our open source toolkit for SSL/TLS. This new OpenSSL version is a major release and incorporates many new features as well as major fixes compared to 0.9.8n." The actual changes listed in the announcement are a real alphabet soup ("Streaming ASN1 encode support for PKCS#7 and CMS"), but it's undoubtedly stuff we all really need to have.

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