On Fri, 9 Aug 2002, Uwe Lienig wrote:

> I tried to get the version from the installed libcrypto.so but after lurking
> around for a cmd that would give me the information I couldn't find one (the lib
> in /usr/lib is named libcrypto.so.0 - not really a version number). Is there any
> way to find out the version of an installed library?

 There is a function to get it or you may use the brute force way, i.e.:

$ strings </usr/lib/libcrypto.so.0 | grep OpenSSL

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+  Maciej W. Rozycki, Technical University of Gdansk, Poland   +
+--------------------------------------------------------------+
+        e-mail: macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl, PGP key available        +