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Everybody,

My name is Anthony Mai. I have just released my first open source project on the SourceForge open source repository. It's called TinySSL. By the name you know it's a tiny package and it handles SSL and TLS, the internet protocol that enables secure communication over the internet.

There are quite a variety of open source SSL solutions available on the internet already. Most note worthy is the OpenSSL package. So why release yet another SSL open source library? Very simple, the existing ones are too bulky and too difficult to understand and use. Software development is about encapsulating data processing in an efficient package so users can enjoy the feature at minimal cost, without having to bother with the implementation details. Secure data communication is but just a small portion of modern software applications. It does not need to be complicated, it does not need to support all feature. It needs to be small, compact in size, efficient, and very easy to use. I have succeeded if some one with no prior knowledge of RSA or SSL takes my package, and creates a secured network application in one or two days.... [read more](/p/tinyssl/blog/2014/06/tinyssl-version-100-is-released/)