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Clicking on OpenSSL takes you to OpenSSL wiki, and he talks about the wiki vs. man pages at the very beginning of his article.

Other links take you elsewhere. Like OpenBSD man pages for libs. He didn’t need a lib.

Yes, the LibreSSL pages contains in total 0 man/docs/wiki pages. Instead it points to external websites.

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No, it takes you to the OpenBSD man page wiki, not the Open SSL wiki. But the tool is still named OpenSSL for interoperability.

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> Going to that website and clicking on openssl reveals a manual page

Please tell me where the very first OpenSSL link takes you. That's the one I clicked just to check.

Oh, right, it has to be the openssl(1), helpfully hidden away in the list of various utilities.

> Please tell me where the very first OpenSSL link takes you. That's the one I clicked just to check.

Are you referring to the line informing the reader that LibreSSL is a fork and provides a link the the OpenSSL project?

Yes. That’s the most prominent OpenSSL link on that page. And as someone pointed out elsewhere, “There are links to the documentation, but they're not labeled as such. They're labeled as though they're links to download the components.”

openssl(1) links to https://man.openbsd.org/openssl

It took me a while to find where the link to openssl(1) is on that page.

So, in order to find documentation, one would have to land on LibreSSL webpage and click on all links hoping to get to the correct one.

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