OCaml-SSL - OCaml bindings for the libssl

Author: Samuel Mimram samuel.mimram@ens-lyon.org
Email: savonet-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Homepage: http://savonet.sourceforge.net/

Installation

ocaml-ssl can be installed via OPAM:

opam install ssl

Is this library thread-safe?

Yes it is if and only if the first function you call in ocaml-ssl is Ssl_threads.init (and the second one should be Ssl.init).

Creating a self-signed ssl certificate

To get started quickly you can create a self-signed ssl certificate using openssl.

First, create a 1024-bit private key to use when creating your CA.: openssl genrsa -des3 -out privkey.pem 1024
Create a master certificate based on this key, to use when signing other certificates: openssl req -new -x509 -days 1001 -key privkey.pem -out cert.pem

SSL acknowledgment

This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project for use in the OpenSSL Toolkit.

License

This library is released under the LGPL version 2.1 with the additional exemption that compiling, linking, and/or using OpenSSL is allowed.

As a special exception to the GNU Library General Public License, you may also link, statically or dynamically, a "work that uses the Library" with a publicly distributed version of the Library to produce an executable file containing portions of the Library, and distribute that executable file under terms of your choice, without any of the additional requirements listed in clause 6 of the GNU Library General Public License. By "a publicly distributed version of the Library", we mean either the unmodified Library, or a modified version of the Library that is distributed under the conditions defined in clause 3 of the GNU Library General Public License. This exception does not however invalidate any other reasons why the executable file might be covered by the GNU Library General Public License.

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
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version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

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