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 ...

SSL certificates are an integral component in securing data and connectivity to other systems. Learn tips on how you can use the Linux openssl command to find critical certificate details.

In addition, while the OpenSSL patch is upstream, that doesn't mean your distribution has the patch ready to go. So, you can't simply update your Debian Linux family software with ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...