!!! This is work in progress. Class names and interfaces will change. !!! Crypt::SSLeay ------------- This is an Perl interface to the SSLeay library by Eric Young. SSLeay is a free implementation of Netscape's SSL protocol. You can get more information about SSLeay and SSL from these places: http://www.psy.uq.oz.au/~ftp/Crypt ftp://ftp.psy.uq.oz.au/pub/Crypto/SSL/ http://www.netscape.com/newsref/std/SSL.html The modules in this package are meant to replace the Net::SSLeay module by Sampo Kellomaki which as far as I can see is not maintained any more. I have not been able to reach Sampo on his mail addresses. I changed the module name because I did not want to stay completely compatible with Sampo's interfaces. The main motivation for doing this is to improve the SSL support in libwww-perl. Using the old Net::SSLeay module LWP was able to talk to HTTPS servers, but you could not examine the ciphers used, the server certificates or use client certificates. The following modules are available: Crypt::SSLeay Crypt::SSLeay::CTX Crypt::SSLeay::Conn Crypt::SSLeay::X509 Crypt::SSLeay::Context Net::SSL The Net::SSL module is a IO::Socket::INET subclass that makes use of the SSL protocol mostly transparent. INSTALLATION You must first install SSLeay-0.6.6. The 0.8.X versions of SSLeay does not really work yet. Once this is accomplished you just perform the usual steps: perl Makefile.PL make make test make install COPYRIGHT © 1998 Gisle Aas. All rights reserved. This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.