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  The OpenSSL Project is a collaborative effort to develop a robust,
  commercial-grade, fully featured, and Open Source toolkit implementing the
  Secure Sockets Layer (SSL v2/v3) and Transport Layer Security (TLS v1)
- protocols with full-strength cryptography world-wide. The project is managed
- by a worldwide community of volunteers that use the Internet to communicate,
- plan, and develop the OpenSSL toolkit and its related documentation. 
+ protocols as well as a full-strength general purpose cryptography library.
+ The project is managed by a worldwide community of volunteers that use the
+ Internet to communicate, plan, and develop the OpenSSL toolkit and its
+ related documentation. 
 
  OpenSSL is based on the excellent SSLeay library developed from Eric A. Young
  and Tim J. Hudson.  The OpenSSL toolkit is licensed under a dual-license (the