uot;default&quot; provider will be automatically loaded.</p>

<p>See <a href="#OPENSSL-PROVIDERS">&quot;OPENSSL PROVIDERS&quot;</a> below for a description of the providers that OpenSSL itself supplies.</p>

<p>Loading and unloading providers is quite an expensive operation. It is normally done once, early on in the application lifecycle and those providers are kept loaded for the duration of the application execution.</p>

<h1 id="LIBRARY-CONTEXTS">LIBRARY CONTEXTS</h1>

<p>Many OpenSSL API functions make 