Although OpenSSL is complex, a lot of that complexity can be avoided. The remainder of this article concentrates on features that are easy to use, and in only a few lines of shell code. This article ...

The team behind the Debian Linux project have discovered a flaw in their implementation of the OpenSSL cryptography package that has been in place since 2006.

A Linux Foundation project inspired by the Heartbleed security flaw announced that it will fund a security audit for the OpenSSL code base and the salaries of two full-time developers.

While the OpenSSL project is doing a great job, some of the documentation on the cryptographic library (libcrypto) is a bit sparse. After testing the command line OpenSSL interface by running all of ...

A large number of applications within all Linux distributions make use of the OpenSSL library to provide SSL support. All users are therefore advised to upgrade the OpenSSL packages to correct these ...

The Linux Foundation, which supports the Linux operating system and other open-source projects, is giving the open-source encryption protocol that contained the Heartbleed vulnerability some tough ...

Only a few days old, OpenSSL fork LibreSSL is declared “unsafe for Linux” Researcher uncovers "catastrophic failure" in random number generation.

Debian Linux got a bit of a black eye this week with the announcement that a nasty cryptographic vulnerability exists in its version of the OpenSSL package.

The Core Infrastructure Initiative has decided to provide the OpenSSL Project with enough money to hire two full-time developers and also will fund an audit of OpenSSL by the Open Crypto Audit ...

Thus, the openssl must be upgraded once more. After the upgrade you should restart every daemon that uses the openssl library, in particular sshd and (if you are running a web server httpd). Affected ...