As many people know, the OpenSSL project is struggling with FIPS, and their new FIPS release is not expected until December 2020. The version of OpenSSL that supports FIPS goes into End Of Life and is no longer supported in December of 2019. This means that OpenSSL users will not have a supported package for […]
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Case Study: wolfSSL enables Saficard to Secure E-Care Bills
Saficard is a French company specializing in solutions for healthcare payment management. One of their products is a Point-of-Sale (POS) terminal designed to accept the Vitale Card. The Vitale Card is a French health insurance card that stores social security information and allows patients to be reimbursed for healthcare costs. The card works with various […]
Read MoreMore TagImproved NXP MMCAU Crypto hardware performance
The NXP Memory-Mapped Cryptographic Acceleration Unit (mmCAU) is on many Kinetis and ColdFire microcontrollers. It improves symmetric AES and SHA performance as compared to our software based implementation. The v4.2.0 enhanced the MMCAU support to use multiple blocks against hardware and optimizes to avoid memory copies (memcpy) when able. This resulted in a 20-78% improvement. […]
Read MoreMore TagwolfSSL Version 4.2.0 is Now Available!
The release of wolfSSL version 4.2.0 is now available! Many exciting new features were added in this release along with optimizations and some fixes. wolfSSL has spent 10,000 hours worth of engineering on creating the code for this release. We’ve added new features, ports, and made it more robust. For a full list of fixes, […]
Read MoreMore TagDifferences between TLS 1.2 and TLS 1.3 (#TLS13)
wolfSSL’s embedded SSL/TLS library has included support for TLS 1.3 since early releases of the TLS 1.3 draft. Since then, wolfSSL has remained up-to-date with the TLS 1.3 specification. In this post, the major upgrades of TLS 1.3 from TLS 1.2 are outlined below: TLS 1.3 This protocol is defined in RFC 8446. TLS 1.3 […]
Read MoreMore TagwolfSSL Support for DO-178 DAL A
wolfSSL now provides support for complete RTCA DO-178C level A certification! wolfSSL will offer DO-178 wolfCrypt as a commercial off -the-shelf (COTS) solution for connected avionics applications. Adherence to DO-178C level A will be supported through the first wolfCrypt COTS DO-178C certification kit release that includes traceable artifacts for the following encryption algorithms: SHA-256 for […]
Read MoreMore TagwolfSSL + Nginx
The wolfSSL embedded SSL/TLS library provides support for various open source projects, including Nginx. For those who are unfamiliar, Nginx is a high-performance, high-concurrency web server. Like wolfSSL, it is also compact, fast, and highly scalable. Additionally, wolfSSL also provides support for TLS 1.3 and features such as OCSP, so Nginx servers can be configured with the latest […]
Read MoreMore TagwolfCrypt as an engine for OpenSSL
As many people know, the OpenSSL project is struggling with FIPS, and their new FIPS release is not expected until December 2020. The version of OpenSSL that supports FIPS goes into End Of Life and is no longer supported in December of 2019. This means that OpenSSL users will not have a supported package for […]
Read MoreMore TagCommercial curl Support
wolfSSL’s embedded SSL/TLS library comes with support for many tools and libraries, one of which is curl! In addition to providing support and maintenance for curl, wolfSSL has also integrated the curl library in conjunction with Daniel Stenberg (an original author of curl and one of the founders). With this integration, wolfSSL now provides commercial support and consulting […]
Read MoreMore TagwolfSSL Support for Qt (#Qt5)
Calling all developers of Qt! wolfSSL is continuously adding new features and support for various open source projects. One of the most recent projects wolfSSL has been working on is support for Qt. We are excited to announce wolfSSL support with Qt version 5.12. The recent wolfSSL integration with Qt provides a lightweight and performance-minded alternative for […]
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