openssl

Toolkit for Encryption, Signatures and Certificates Based on OpenSSL

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Bindings to OpenSSL libssl and libcrypto, plus custom SSH key parsers. Supports RSA, DSA and EC curves P-256, P-384, P-521, and curve25519. Cryptographic signatures can either be created and verified manually or via x509 certificates. AES can be used in cbc, ctr or gcm mode for symmetric encryption; RSA for asymmetric (public key) encryption or EC for Diffie Hellman. High-level envelope functions combine RSA and AES for encrypting arbitrary sized data. Other utilities include key generators, hash functions (md5, sha1, sha256, etc), base64 encoder, a secure random number generator, and 'bignum' math methods for manually performing crypto calculations on large multibyte integers.


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Last 30 days

This package has been downloaded 1,154,105 times in the last 30 days. This is the academic equivalent of going platinum. Except, you know, with more charts and fewer screaming fans. Congratulations! The following heatmap shows the distribution of downloads per day. Yesterday, it was downloaded 41,090 times.

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22,004 downloadsMar 16, 2025
36,920 downloadsMar 17, 2025
48,541 downloadsMar 18, 2025
48,258 downloadsMar 19, 2025
58,984 downloadsMar 20, 2025
50,890 downloadsMar 21, 2025
39,168 downloadsMar 22, 2025
39,288 downloadsMar 23, 2025
45,996 downloadsMar 24, 2025
47,734 downloadsMar 25, 2025
54,834 downloadsMar 26, 2025
48,429 downloadsMar 27, 2025
39,347 downloadsMar 28, 2025
30,817 downloadsMar 29, 2025
29,892 downloadsMar 30, 2025
42,309 downloadsMar 31, 2025
41,719 downloadsApr 1, 2025
34,022 downloadsApr 2, 2025
33,711 downloadsApr 3, 2025
28,600 downloadsApr 4, 2025
19,865 downloadsApr 5, 2025
19,786 downloadsApr 6, 2025
37,390 downloadsApr 7, 2025
40,840 downloadsApr 8, 2025
39,562 downloadsApr 9, 2025
38,651 downloadsApr 10, 2025
35,718 downloadsApr 11, 2025
33,984 downloadsApr 12, 2025
25,756 downloadsApr 13, 2025
41,090 downloadsApr 14, 2025
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Last 365 days

This package has been downloaded 10,450,698 times in the last 365 days. Whoa! That's more downloads than an AI-generated meme in a tech-savvy group chat. Truly legendary! The day with the most downloads was Mar 20, 2025 with 58,984 downloads.

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