Ice for C++ SSL plug-in

 Ice, the Internet Communications Engine, is a middleware for the
 practical programmer developed by ZeroC Inc. A high-performance
 Internet communications platform, Ice includes a wealth of layered
 services and plug-ins.
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 Ice is built on concepts which will be familiar to CORBA programmers,
 and supports a wide variety of programming languages and runtime
 platforms.
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 This package is required to run applications using secure connections
 developed with Ice for C++ or Ice for Python. You will find further
 information in the ZeroC home page (http://www.zeroc.com/ice.html)
 and in the non-free package zeroc-ice-manual.