OpenSSL is a library that provides cryptographic functionality to applications such as secure web servers.

http://www.openssl.org/docs/apps/openssl.html

For more information on U.S. encyption policies, refer to these web sites:

U.S. Dept of Commerce               www.doc.gov
Export Policy Resource Page         http://www.cdt.org/crypto/
Computer Systems Public Policy      www.cspp.org 

Cryptographic software needs a source of unpredictable data to work correctly. Many open source operating systems provide a “randomness device” (/dev/urandom or /dev/random) that serves this purpose. All OpenSSL versions try to use /dev/urandom by default

then try other good comands to know ::

$ openssl version
e.g. mine is OpenSSL 0.9.8b 04 May 2006

$ openssl ciphers -v

$ openssl speed

$ openssl s_time -connect remote.host:443

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