OpenSSL

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Analyzed 6 days ago. based on code collected 6 days ago.

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.

In a Nutshell, OpenSSL...

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has had 38,867 commits made by 1,381 contributors
representing 963,796 lines of code
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is mostly written in C
with an average number of source code comments
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has a well established, mature codebase
maintained by a very large development team
with increasing Y-O-Y commits
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took an estimated 272 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in December, 1998
ending with its most recent commit 14 days ago

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https://github.com/openssl/openssl

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