DESCRIPTION: OpenSSL is a general purpose cryptography library.

OpenSSL is a software library to be used in applications that need to secure
communications against eavesdropping or need to ascertain the identity of
the party at the other end.  It has found wide use in internet web servers,
serving a majority of all web sites.

OpenSSL contains an open-source implementation of the SSL and TLS protocols. 
The core library, written in the C programming language, implements basic
cryptographic functions and provides various utility functions.  Wrappers
allowing the use of the OpenSSL library in a variety of computer languages
are available.