-This engine provides implementation of Russian cryptography standard.
-This is also an example of adding new cryptoalgorithms into OpenSSL
-without changing its core. If OpenSSL is compiled with dynamic engine
-support, new algorithms can be added even without recompilation of
-OpenSSL and applications which use it.
+An implementation of Russian cryptography standards for OpenSSL.
+
+Since v.0.9.6 OpenSSL provides facilities for creating external dynamically
+loaded cryptographic engines (OpenSSL should be built with dynamic engine
+support to be able to use it). Since v 1.0 it became possible to provide
+digital signature algorithms via engines.
+
+This engine provides an implementation of various Russian cryptographic
+algorithms, known generally as GOST cryptographic algorithms (see detailed list
+below). These algorithms can be used both via OpenSSL command line tools and
+via high-level libopenssl calls.
+
+OpenSSL GOST Engine also includes 'gostsum' and 'gost12sum' command line tools
+for generating and checking GOST R34.11-94 and GOST R34.11-2012 hashsums.
+They have the same purposes and behavior as the well-known sha1sum and md5sum
+utilities. These utilities can be used independently from OpenSSL.