1The OpenSSL Project is a collaborative effort to develop a robust, 2commercial-grade, full-featured, and Open Source toolkit implementing 3the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL v3) and Transport Layer Security (TLS v1, 4v1.1, v1.2, v1.3) protocols with full-strength cryptography world-wide. 5The project is managed by a worldwide community of volunteers that use 6the Internet to communicate, plan, and develop the OpenSSL tookit 7and its related documentation. 8 9OpenSSL is based on the excellent SSLeay library developed by Eric 10A. Young and Tim J. Hudson. The OpenSSL toolkit is licensed under 11an Apache-style licence, which basically means that you are free 12to get and use it for commercial and non-commercial purposes subject 13to some simple license conditions. 14