Dockerfiles for OpenSSL built from source.

OpenSSL is built mostly with the standard build configuration. The target platform is linux-x86_64 and the enable-ec_nistp_64_gcc_128 option is set. Otherwise, everything is the default. That means no SSL v2.0 or v3.0 and no zlib compression support.

The default --prefix and --openssldir options are used. This means different things on OpenSSL 1.0.2 and 1.1.0.

OpenSSL is installed to /usr/local/ssl (--prefix) and the config files (--openssldir) are stored there too. Importantly, this means that OpenSSL 1.0.2 is not in the default library load path and should not conflict with the OpenSSL provided by the distribution. You will need to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/ssl when running any software linked against this OpenSSL.

In this version of OpenSSL, the defaults and behaviour for --prefix and --openssldir changed. The default prefix is /usr/local and the config directory is in <prefix>/ssl. This means that this OpenSSL will be included in the default library load path. However, this shouldn't conflict with the distribution-provided OpenSSL as the platform used (Debian Jessie) still uses OpenSSL 1.0.1 and the library name has changed in OpenSSL 1.1.0 (libssl.so.1.0.0 vs libssl.so.1.1).

The system CA certificates are copied into the certificate store directory for the built OpenSSL and rehashed. This is similar to what Homebrew does.

To update the CA certificates, it's probably best to reinstall the ca-certificates package, update the system certificates, and then purge and recopy the system certificates to the local certificate store directory (/usr/local/ssl/certs).