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Unfortunately, http://www.libressl.org/ http://www.libressl.org/ won’t help you either, because there literally isn’t any documentation of LibreSSL. Going to t
by protomyth 9y ago
Unfortunately, http://www.libressl.org/ http://www.libressl.org/ won’t help you either, because there literally isn’t any documentation of LibreSSL.
Going to that website and clicking on openssl reveals a manual page. So, I guess the "literally isn’t any documentation" is wrong. OpenBSD likes their man pages.
- smhenderson 9y agoNot to mention summary pages to each of the three libraries provided by libressl. On each of those there are then links to man pages for each function offered by the libraries. Not sure what he's missing, I've always found OpenBSD's documentation to be first class.
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- dmitriid 9y agoClicking on OpenSSL takes you to OpenSSL wiki, and he talks about the wiki vs. man pages at the very beginning of his article. Other links take you elsewhere. Like OpenBSD man pages for libs. He didn’t need a lib. Yes, the LibreSSL pages contains in total 0 man/docs/wiki pages. Instead it points to external websites.
- dsp1234 9y agoopenssl(1) links to https://man.openbsd.org/openssl https://man.openbsd.org/openssl
- dmitriid 9y agoIt took me a while to find where the link to openssl(1) is on that page. So, in order to find documentation, one would have to land on LibreSSL webpage and click on all links hoping to get to the correct one.
- tonysidaway 9y agoLibreSSL comes with copious documentation. Whence this latterday ignorance of offline documentation?
- SAI_Peregrinus 9y agoNo, it takes you to the OpenBSD man page wiki, not the Open SSL wiki. But the tool is still named OpenSSL for interoperability.
- dmitriid 9y agoOriginal quote: > Going to that website and clicking on openssl reveals a manual page Please tell me where the very first OpenSSL link takes you. That's the one I clicked just to check. Oh, right, it has to be the openssl(1), helpfully hidden away in the list of various utilities.
- gbrown_ 9y ago> Please tell me where the very first OpenSSL link takes you. That's the one I clicked just to check. Are you referring to the line informing the reader that LibreSSL is a fork and provides a link the the OpenSSL project?
- dmitriid 9y agoYes. That’s the most prominent OpenSSL link on that page. And as someone pointed out elsewhere, “There are links to the documentation, but they're not labeled as such. They're labeled as though they're links to download the components.”