OpenSSL, the Cryptography Lego(TM) Set
OpenSSL, the Cryptography Lego(TM) Set June 2002 by Anne Carasik
When I got a new Lego set the other day, I discovered that it made a really cool train. However, it was missing the cow-catcher, so I built one for the Lego engine. There are other things I did to improve the train car -- I added a functioning light, an electric engine, additional freight cars, and a caboose. You can think of OpenSSL as a Lego set. You're provided with the base -- the libraries and the command line tools -- but you build the rest. Like a pre-designed Lego set, OpenSSL is a cryptographic toolkit that includes libraries and the header files (the train engine) and the command-line tool.
When I got a new Lego set the other day, I discovered that it made a really cool train. However, it was missing the cow-catcher, so I built one for the Lego engine. There are other things I did to improve the train car -- I added a functioning light, an electric engine, additional freight cars, and a caboose. You can think of OpenSSL as a Lego set. You're provided with the base -- the libraries and the command line tools -- but you build the rest. Like a pre-designed Lego set, OpenSSL is a cryptographic toolkit that includes libraries and the header files (the train engine) and the command-line tool.
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