Any good examples on programming using libssl?

Question

I was wondering whether someone knows any good examples of using libssl as a programming library. Its kind of annoying only digging through the code of libssl trying to make sense of it.

Answer 1

You've run into the lack of documentation problem OpenSSL has. IBM DeveloperWorks does have a couple articles about using OpenSSL:

• http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-openssl.html
• http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-openssl2.html
• http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-openssl3.html

If you want to utilize a better documented library, you can take a look at Mozilla NSS:

• http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/nss/#documentation