Errata
The errata list is a list of errors and their corrections that were found after the product was released. If the error was corrected in a later version or reprint the date of the correction will be displayed in the column titled "Date Corrected".
The following errata were submitted by our customers and approved as valid errors by the author or editor.
Color key: Serious technical mistake Minor technical mistake Language or formatting error Typo Question Note Update
Version | Location | Description | Submitted By | Date submitted | Date corrected |
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Printed | Page 10 On the second line of the fourth paragraph, "... she can sign it with her public key."; |
"public" should be "private". |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 29 2nd paragraph |
The second word in the second sentence should be "supports". |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 39 In the last para of the RSA section. |
The sentence "In general, we do not recommend that you use this command at all for |
Anonymous | Jun 01, 2006 | |
Printed | Page 40-41 In the paragraph spanning the two pages; "... trust can be established if the certificate |
that issued a certificate...", The first instance of "certificate" should read "Certification Authority". |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 54 1st paragraph |
"just that is hasn't been revoked" |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 56 In the fourth full paragraph on the page, every instance of "certificate" NOW |
READS "private key". |
Anonymous | Jun 01, 2006 | |
Printed | Page 57 In the first paragraph under the section "Code-Signing Certificates", the last word of |
the third sentence NOW READS "private key" instead of "certificate." |
Anonymous | Jun 01, 2006 | |
Printed | Page 65 In Example 3-5, the command output shown |
"Generating a 1024 bit RSA private key" |
Anonymous | Jun 01, 2006 | |
Printed | Page 75 In the first sentence in the section "Static Locking Callbacks", the word provide is misspelled. |
Anonymous | |||
Printed | Page 76 In Example 4-1, the 11th line |
#elif _POSIX_THREADS |
Anonymous | Jun 01, 2006 | |
Printed | Page 76 In Example 4-1, the 25th line |
static MUTEX_TYPE mutex_buf[] = NULL; |
Anonymous | Jun 01, 2006 | |
Printed | Page 80 In Example 4-2, the 30th line |
MUTEX_CLEANUP(l->mutexp); |
Anonymous | Jun 01, 2006 | |
Printed | Page 92 2nd paragraph, 2nd sentence |
"cis" should be "is". |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 97 In the Random Number Generation section, documentation of RAND_bytes and RAND_pseudo_bytes was omitted. |
These are API functions for programmers to use when they need random numbers from OpenSSL. The following |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 113 4th paragraph |
The second sentence in the fourth paragraph on page 113 start with "There a total of |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 115 In the function init_OpenSSL, SSL_init_library() should be SSL_library_init() |
Anonymous | |||
Printed | Page 117 In Example 5-4, the 5th line |
int done, err, nread; |
Anonymous | Jun 01, 2006 | |
Printed | Page 127 In Example 5-6, the 88th line |
THREAD_create(tid, server_thread, ssl); |
Anonymous | Jun 01, 2006 | |
Printed | Page 136 Function post_connection_check, line 61 |
In the Win32 environment, the function strcasecmp does not exist. I inserted the |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 138 |
In Example 5-9, line 3 should read: |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 140 |
In Example 5-10, line 3 should read: |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 141 In Example 5-10, the 66th line should be |
ERR_remove_state(0); |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 141 In Example 5-10, the 101th line should be |
THREAD_CREATE(tid, server_thread, ssl); |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 147 |
In Example 5-11, line 4 should read: |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 148 |
In Example 5-12, line 48 should read: |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 160 On lines 35 and 36 of Example 5-16, function name NOW READS |
"set_nonblocking rather than "set_non-blocking". |
Anonymous | Jun 01, 2006 | |
Printed | Page 175 All AES modes use 128-bit blocks. Remove all references to variable block sizes. Rijndael, which became |
AES, supports variable block lengths, but the AES specification fixes the block size. |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 198 6th line from bottom |
unsigned char *process_file(FILE *f, insigned int *olen) should read |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 288 In Example 10-6 on line 77 (third line of code from bottom of the page), the parentheses do not match up. |
The line should rather be: |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 289 In Example 10-6 on line 129 (third line of code from bottom of the page), the parentheses do not match |
up. The line should rather be: |
Anonymous |