SSLeay is an early implementation of the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol, developed by Eric Young and released in the mid-1990s. It was one of the first widely-used libraries for implementing SSL encryption in applications, allowing secure communication over the internet. SSLeay provided the foundational code that many later projects were built upon, including the OpenSSL project, which took over SSLeay's development and expanded upon it significantly.
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