Newbie question regarding SSL and certificate verification

[David Robinow]

On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 10:07 AM, Jeffrey Gaynor <jgaynor at ncsa.uiuc.edu> wrote:
> ...
> A final question -- how widely is M2Crypto used? Since I will have to now pitch to our group that this is preferable the first questions they will ask are about stability, who is using it and how secure is it really, especially since it is at version 0.20.2 (i.e. no major release yet).

I know very little about security, but one thing I think I know. Never
use security software version 1.0 or greater. It was written by an
author insufficiently paranoid.