No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is openssl.org legit or a scam?
Official OpenSSL project site with a 27-year-old domain, clean blocklist status, and confirmed references across GitHub and Wikipedia.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
The page presents itself as the central hub for the OpenSSL open-source security libraries. Its strongest legitimacy signal is the 10030-day domain age combined with explicit confirmation as the official site on GitHub and Wikipedia. No scam families, malware detections, or abuse reports exist on the hosting IP. The absence of business registration is expected for a non-profit open-source project supported by the OpenSSL Foundation. External domains loaded are all related project entities rather than unrelated third parties.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.
Visual Screenshot Analysis
We capture a fresh screenshot of the live page and ask a vision model to look for scam visual patterns — fake trust badges, countdown timers, overlay pop-ups, and visual clones of legitimate brands.
No scam visual patterns detected
Clean, professional layout with no scam indicators visible. Appears to be a legitimate site promoting open-source security libraries.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for openssl.org, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Official home page of the OpenSSL project confirmed on GitHub: 'The official Home Page of the OpenSSL Project is www.openssl.org'
- Listed as the project website on Wikipedia: 'Website | www.openssl.org'
- No scam, fraud, complaint, or malware reports found across multiple targeted searches including Reddit and general web
- Domain age given as 10030 days (~27.5 years); long-established project site with references dating back years
- Related entities include OpenSSL Foundation (openssl.foundation) and OpenSSL Library (openssl-library.org) for downloads and governance
- Third-party sites (e.g., slproweb.com) explicitly link to and recommend openssl.org as the official source
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Contact Verification
We fetched the page and looked for real-world contact details. Legitimate businesses almost always publish an email on their own domain, a phone number, and a postal address. Scam shops usually don't.
- No contact email found anywhere on the page.
- No phone number listed on the page.
- No postal address visible on the page.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://openssl.org/
- 2200https://openssl.org/
Server Reputation
Still, stay alert
No major threat indicators — but a clean scan does not guarantee every page is safe, and phishing emails routinely spoof real domains.
- Double-check the exact URL in your address bar
Confirm you are actually on openssl.org and not a lookalike like o-penssl.org.com or an IDN homoglyph.
- Use a password manager
Password managers only auto-fill on the exact domain they were saved for — they refuse to fill lookalike domains, which is the single best phishing defence.
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Trust History
Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
Safety FAQ
Common questions about this site, answered from the scan data on this page. These are auto-generated — not hand-written — so they always match the underlying report.
- Our automated security review found no threat indicators on openssl.org. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- openssl.org passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 93/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. openssl.org presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Google Trust Services · WR3, expiring in 56 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- openssl.org is 27.5 years old, registered on 12/19/1998 through Gandi SAS. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. openssl.org is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- openssl.org resolves to an IP operated by Google LLC in US (usage type: Content Delivery Network). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad, but unusual geography for a brand's claimed country is one of many signals we weigh.
- We cache results for 24 hours. Signed-in MalwareTips members can trigger a manual rescan at any time using the "Rescan" button on the report page, which re-runs every check from scratch and refreshes this page.
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