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Project Summary

OpenSSL is a robust, commercial-grade, and full-featured toolkit for the Transport Layer Security (TLS) and Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocols. It is also a general-purpose cryptography library.

OpenSSL is licensed under an Apache-style license, which basically means that you are free to get and use it for commercial and non-commercial purposes subject to some simple license conditions.

Tags

c cryptography decryption perl secure secureconnection security sockets ssl tls transport

Project Security

Vulnerabilities per Version ( last 10 releases )

Project Vulnerability Report

Security Confidence Index

Poor security track-record
Favorable security track-record

Vulnerability Exposure Index

Many reported vulnerabilities
Few reported vulnerabilities

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Languages

C
62%
Perl
35%
13 Other
3%

30 Day Summary

Jul 25 2025 — Aug 24 2025

12 Month Summary

Aug 24 2024 — Aug 24 2025
  • 1978 Commits
    Down -62 (3%) from previous 12 months
  • 228 Contributors
    Up + 25 (12%) from previous 12 months

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Static Analysis ( Generated by Coverity Scan for openssl/openssl )

Repository URL: https://github.com/openssl/openssl

Version: 2025-08-24\ 53eb236

2025-08-24
Last Analyzed
666,828
Lines of Code Analyze
0.01
Defect Density

Defects by status for current build

1,875
Total defects
5
Outstanding
1,562
Fixed

CWE Top 25 defects

No top 25 CWE defects were found.