| The applications |
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| Ok, where to begin.... |
| In the begining, when SSLeay was small (April 1995), there |
| were but few applications, they did happily cohabit in |
| the one bin directory. Then over time, they did multiply and grow, |
| and they started to look like microsoft software; 500k to print 'hello world'. |
| A new approach was needed. They were coalessed into one 'Monolithic' |
| application, ssleay. This one program is composed of many programs that |
| can all be compiled independantly. |
| |
| ssleay has 3 modes of operation. |
| 1) If the ssleay binaray has the name of one of its component programs, it |
| executes that program and then exits. This can be achieve by using hard or |
| symbolic links, or failing that, just renaming the binary. |
| 2) If the first argument to ssleay is the name of one of the component |
| programs, that program runs that program and then exits. |
| 3) If there are no arguments, ssleay enters a 'command' mode. Each line is |
| interpreted as a program name plus arguments. After each 'program' is run, |
| ssleay returns to the comand line. |
| |
| dgst - message digests |
| enc - encryption and base64 encoding |
| |
| ans1parse - 'pulls' appart ASN.1 encoded objects like certificates. |
| |
| dh - Diffle-Hellman parameter manipulation. |
| rsa - RSA manipulations. |
| crl - Certificate revokion list manipulations |
| x509 - X509 cert fiddles, including signing. |
| pkcs7 - pkcs7 manipulation, only DER versions right now. |
| |
| genrsa - generate an RSA private key. |
| gendh - Generate a set of Diffle-Hellman parameters. |
| req - Generate a PKCS#10 object, a certificate request. |
| |
| s_client - SSL client program |
| s_server - SSL server program |
| s_time - A SSL protocol timing program |
| s_mult - Another SSL server, but it multiplexes |
| connections. |
| s_filter - under development |
| |
| errstr - Convert SSLeay error numbers to strings. |
| ca - Sign certificate requests, and generate |
| certificate revokion lists |
| crl2pkcs7 - put a crl and certifcates into a pkcs7 object. |
| speed - Benchmark the ciphers. |
| verify - Check certificates |
| hashdir - under development |
| |
| [ there a now a few more options, play with the program to see what they |
| are ] |
