OpenSSL tool for Windows

The openssl program is a command line tool for using the various cryptography functions of  OpenSSL's  crypto library from the shell.

LibreSSL is a version of the TLS/crypto stack forked from OpenSSL in 2014, with goals of modernizing the codebase, improving security, and applying best practice development processes.

Installation

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openssl_tool_win_x64_1.0.0.zip 2.28 MB SHA256 hash PGP signature


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Usage

Zip archive contains 64-bit binaries of the openssl tool from LibreSSL, Cygwin and required DLLs plus man pages which are also available here: openssl openssl.cnf
 
One liner for creation of a self-signed SSL certificate:
 
 openssl req -x509 -nodes -days 365 -newkey rsa:2048 -keyout selfsigned.key -out selfsigned.crt 

 

Licence/Version

This package contains components with different terms of licensing:

Component Version Licensing

LibreSSL

2.9.1

 Apache license 1.0, 4-clause BSD License, ISC license, and some are public domain
Cygwin

3.0.7

 CYGWIN license (GPL) Source code for Cygwin are available here.