

It is always recommended that you update the system to the latest packages before beginning any major installations. Once you have signed up, log into your Cloudwafer Client Area with the password provided in your mail and deploy your Cloudwafer cloud server. Take a moment to create an account after which you can easily deploy your own cloud servers. If you have not already registered with Cloudwafer, you should begin by getting signed up.

In this guide, we are going to install the latest version of OpenSSL on Ubuntu 16.04/18.04. OpenSSL is used by many programs like Apache Web server, PHP, and many others providing support for various cryptographic algorithms such as ciphers (AES, Blowfish, DES, IDEA etc.), and cryptographic hash functions (MD5, MD4, SHA-1, SHA-2 etc.) It is also a general-purpose cryptography library. OpenSSL is a robust, commercial-grade, and full-featured toolkit for the Transport Layer Security (TLS) and Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocols.
