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openssl@3

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Formula Development v3.6.2

Cryptography and SSL/TLS Toolkit

When to use

Cryptography and SSL/TLS Toolkit. Use openssl@3 when you want a widely used development command-line package that can be installed and updated through Homebrew. It is one of FastBrew's top packages by Homebrew installs, with about 5.6M installs over the last year.

Install 1 App in Terminal
$
brew install 'openssl@3'
Source: homebrew/core Website Homebrew

Dependencies

Installation Notes

To add additional certificates, place .pem files in
  $HOMEBREW_PREFIX/etc/openssl@3/certs

and run
  $HOMEBREW_PREFIX/opt/openssl@3/bin/c_rehash

OpenSSL 3.6 is only supported until 2026-11-01 so the `openssl@3`
formula will be downgraded to OpenSSL 3.5 (LTS) in a future update.
Install Statistics 7.0% vs 90d

Install activity across time periods

Metric 30 Days 90 Days 1 Year
Total Installs 459.7K 1.5M 5.6M
Avg Daily Installs 15.3K 16.5K 15.2K

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