A new year, another attack on TLS. Karthikeyan Bhargavan and Gaetan Leurent of INRIA recently announced the new attack. TLS 1.2 allows negotiation of the hashing algorithm used for signatures, typically to “upgrade” the hash to a higher security level. Before TLS 1.2 a combination of MD5 and SHA1 were used for signatures. TLS 1.2 […]
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CES Big Story #3: Internet of Things Hyper Mania Hits Hard Reality – Security
Everybody with a pulse is excited about the IoT, for all of the right reasons, but the market is starting to recognize the challenges of security. See the following EE Times article by John Curran of Accenture for a description of the security challenges of IoT: https://www.eetimes.com/author.asp?section_id=36&doc_id=1328584. Fortunately, wolfSSL is here to help secure your […]
Read MoreMore TagIoT Security: Start with the Fundamentals
Securing connected devices, including the IoT, is very important to us at wolfSSL. Larry Stefonic, CEO and Co-Founder of wolfSSL, recently published a guest post on the Xively blog that talks about the fundamentals of device security. This post includes commentary on securing the connection, device authentication, secure firmware updates, and securing the data on […]
Read MoreMore TagwolfSSL Release Version 3.8.0
wolfSSL version 3.8.0 has been released and is now available for download. The release has many new feature additions and some minor fixes. One of the new feature additions is that there have been APIs added for single shot hashing, creating a signature, and verifying a signature. This allows users to easily create a hash […]
Read MoreMore TagwolfSSL with devkitPro
wolfSSL has a port to devkitPro, giving an option to game developers to secure information with the embedded, lightweight, wolfSSL TLS/SSL library. The low memory footprint size of wolfSSL allows for efficient use of security while leaving plenty of room for the game itself. The low memory size of wolfSSL is something that has been […]
Read MoreMore TagwolfSSL Roadmap for 2016
Curious about new features and additions to wolfSSL technologies for the coming year? Some items on our current roadmap include: – Early TLS 1.3 adoption – Non-blocking Crypto support – DTLS robustness improvements – Curve25519 / Ed25519 integration at the TLS level – Increased IoT platforms – More resource reduction options In terms of new […]
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