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authorRichard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org>2001-12-04 07:38:17 +0000
committerRichard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org>2001-12-04 07:38:17 +0000
commit8f0edcb3d28f3b8d96e10ad24e46d9e43bd1aab5 (patch)
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parent35e25255e087079a9908192c7e40fea1a7ca2fe9 (diff)
I was recently informed that some people wrongly use ssleay.txt as
main documentation, so let's warn them a little more, so the word "OBSOLETE" really gets understood.
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Bundle of old SSLeay documentation files [OBSOLETE!]
+*** WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! ***
+
+OBSOLETE means that nothing in this document should be trusted. This
+document is provided mostly for historical purposes (it wasn't even up
+to date at the time SSLeay 0.8.1 was released) and as inspiration. If
+you copy some snippet of code from this document, please _check_ that
+it really is correct from all points of view. For example, you can
+check with the other documents in this directory tree, or by comparing
+with relevant parts of the include files.
+
+People have done the mistake of trusting what's written here. Please
+don't do that.
+
+*** WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! ***
+
+
==== readme ========================================================
This is the old 0.6.6 docuementation. Most of the cipher stuff is still