OpenSSL cryptography/security library available for Red Hat Linux 6.x

OpenSSL is being made available for Red Hat Linux 6.x. This release brings
cryptographic algorithms and protocols as well as certificate management to
these platforms.

OpenSSL, which was first officially shipped with Red Hat Linux 7.0, has
been built and tested on Red Hat Linux 6.0, 6.1, and 6.2. These packages
are being made available so that developers may make use of the encryption
algorithms and protocols it provides, most notably SSL (Secure Sockets
Layer) version 3.0 and TLS (Transport Layer Security) version 1.0.

These updated packages remove the crypt() function from libcrypto to
prevent conflicts with the version provided by glibc, and the packages
built for the alpha architecture are optimized for EV5 processors instead
of EV6 processors to allow them to run on all supported processors.

For each RPM for your particular architecture, run:

rpm -Fvh [filename]

where filename is the name of the RPM.

You will need the base package to support SSL and RSA functionality in
future packages. To build programs that need this functionality, you will
need the development subpackage. The various other packages are bindings
for developers using scripting languages.

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encryption