What is Openssl? Is it a free SSL certificate?

Question

What is Openssl? Is it a free SSL certificate? As in the opposite to the paid certificates?

Answer 1

No. Open SSL is the actual SSL program provided by the open source software community. It is the version used by the majority of internet servers. It is also included in every distribution of the Apache Web Server. You can create your own certificates in it free, but they will NOT be accepted for general use, [particularly on sites requiring personal information like banking or credit card details. It would be required for a client to actually tell their machine to accept unverified certificates. For a proper secure site you still have to register the certificate with a recognised certificate agency to obtain an authorisation time stamp and approval. You need to keep this updated or machines will refuse to accept connections.

Answer 2

Open SSL generally used for creating a self-signed certificate, because you can create self signed certificate with openssl you can say it as free, but it is not the thing to be purchased, you have to create a self-signed certificate by generating a key.

Answer 3

The openssl certificate management tool and the shared libraries that provide various encryption and decription algorithms and protocols, including DES, RC4,RSA and SSL. This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project for use in theOpenSSL Toolkit (http:// www.openssl.org/). This product includes cryptographic software written by Eric Young([e-mail]). This product includes software written by Tim Hudson ([e-mail]).