SSL

The secure sockets layer (SSL) is used by web browsers (for example) to provide authentication and encryption. Transport Layer Security (TLS) is proposed to be an IETF-standardized variant with some changes.

Mailing lists and newsgroups

See the OpenSSL site below.

How to get SSL

Many web browsers and servers will implement SSL (for use in the web context, at least, if not necessarily for use in your own applications).

See the OpenSSL/SSLeay sites below for more on SSL implementations for use in your applications.

For more information

The most popular freely distributable implementation of SSL is SSLeay. Future development of SSLeay is likely to be done by the OpenSSL team.

For information about having CVS run over SSL, see the SSL section of our Development of CVS: Networking page.

The SSLeay web site is probably mainly of historic interest, now that the authors have been hired by a competing firm.