The OpenSSLProject is acollaborativeeffort todevelop arobust,commercial-grade,fully featured,and Open Sourcetoolkitimplementingthe SecureSockets Layer(SSLv2/v3) andTransport LayerSecurity(TLSv1) as wellas afull-strengthgeneral-purposecryptographylibrary.
PolarSSL is alight-weightcryptographicand SSL/TLSlibrary writtenin C. PolarSSLmakes it easyfor developersto includecryptographicand SSL/TLScapabilities intheir(embedded)applicationswith as littlehassle aspossible. Loosecoupling of thecomponentsinside thelibrary meansthat it is easyto separate theparts that areneeded, withoutneeding toinclude thetotal library.PolarSSL iswritten withembeddedsystems in mindand has beenported on anumber ofarchitectures,including