Ow. The memories. Back in 2004 I was writing a piece of networking code that had to do handshakes with parameters that were not exposed in OpenSSL API. After m

Ow. The memories. Back in 2004 I was writing a piece of networking code that had to do handshakes with parameters that were not exposed in OpenSSL API. After many days of code diving and mailing list digging, I came across an old thread. Some kind soul had written up the man pages for the family of low-level functions I needed to use. He sent the doc update as a patch to the mailing list, and the response from the devs has seared itself to my memory: "NAK. If you use these functions, you need to understand all the code around them anyway." That day I learned everything I needed to know about OpenSSL and its development.