Author: wolfSSL

Hi!  wolfSSL`s Secure Embedded Web Server is now available for FreeRTOS.  Let us know if you`re interested at facts@wolfssl.com.

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Here at wolfSSL, we’re always excited to see fan art! Today we’d like to thank Steve Barker (https://plus.google.com/103515628980768116177/posts) for the rendition of our logo and tagline!

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One of the consistent themes at Black Hat is attacks on industrial control systems; which includes water plants, power plants, and oil refineries.  One of the presentations was centered around using honeypots to determine the level of attack activity.  An excellent article on the presentation and related material can be found here:  http://gcn.com/Articles/2013/08/07/ics-honeypots.aspx?s=security_080813&admgarea=TC_SecCybersSec&Page=1 Some of […]

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Qualys put out an excellent SSL deployment best practices paper a few months ago.  If you have not seen it, then check it out here:  https://www.ssllabs.com/projects/best-practices/

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We are at Black Hat 2013 this week and have seen some really cool hacks. Today, we saw “Honey, I`m Home!! Hacking Z-Wave Home Automation Systems” presented by Behrang Fouladi and Sahand Ghanoun. They demonstrated how easy it is to unlock someone`s house with a laptop and a sub-$75 radio card. While you can encrypt […]

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Carmakers these days are clearly seduced by the power automotive electronics have to help sell their cars.  At wolfSSL, we`re seeing more and more connected auto devices getting designed (and secured by CyaSSL) in recent years.  All of the carmakers and their suppliers we deal with are quite cognizant of the security risks their connected […]

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Hi!  If you follow the networking market, you probably know that Software Defined Networks (SDN) represent a potential tectonic shift in how we think about and design network environments.  The concept has been around since 2005, but has gained significant momentum in the last couple of years, to the point where it is not just […]

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Last month the NSA released a paper on Simon and Speck, which are lightweight block ciphers that appear to be applicable to a large part of our embedded user base.  The paper can be found here:  http://eprint.iacr.org/2013/404.pdf Our users who have a keen interest in small size and low power consumption will find this paper […]

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wolfSSL has made considerable progress in the first half of 2013, including a company name change to wolfSSL,  improvements to the CyaSSL lightweight SSL library, initiation of our FIPS 140-2 certification, and the introduction of our wolfCrypt cryptography library.  Being an open source company, we like to keep our users, customers, and followers up to […]

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The wolfSSL lightweight SSL library has supported ECC (Elliptic curve cryptography) since version 2.4.6 in December of 2012. Currently wolfSSL supports the most common ECC curve type at each bit strength defined by the standard, including the following. SECP160R1SECP192R1   (also called PRIME192V1)SECP224R1SECP256R1   (also called PRIME256V1)SECP384R1SECP521R1wolfSSL defaults to SECP256R1, as is suggested, and as other SSL […]

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