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The Cryptographic Module Validation Program (CMVP) has issued FIPS 140-2 Certificate #2425 (most up-to-date certificate: #3389) for the wolfCrypt Module developed by wolfSSL Inc. The CMVP was established by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to validate FIPS 140-2 cryptographic modules and oversee the independent laboratories performing the cryptographic module testing. FIPS 140-2 […]

If you are working on integrating wolfSSL into an application that already has existing logging functionality, but still want access wolfSSL`s built-in debug messaging, you can register a custom logging callback with wolfSSL to output wolfSSL`s detailed debug messaging. To enable this functionality, add the configure option “–enable-debug” to wolfSSL. Then, in your application simply: […]

Thanks to the continued efforts of the Texas Instruments Team there is now a Wiki Page for using the wolfSSL embedded SSL/TLS library with TI-RTOS.Using wolfSSL with TI-RTOS (PDF) Members of the wolfSSL team have worked through this wiki and created a step-by-step guide for customers unfamiliar with Code Composer Studio (CCS), SSL/TLS, or TI-RTOS. […]

On applications using ECC with wolfSSL where total memory footprint is a secondary factor to performance, consider enabling fixed point ECC with wolfSSL. This configure option generates a large lookup table for use with ECC that can increase performance time by as much as 5 times. This comes at the cost of runtime memory, but […]

Researchers Clemens Hlauschek, Markus Gruber, Florian Fankhauser, and Christian Schanes of Germany`s Research Industrial Systems Engineering are presenting a TLS Man in the Middle attack at this week’s USENIX conference in Washington D.C: https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/woot15/woot15-paper-hlauschek.pdf .  This is a protocol level attack that has a few requirements; a static (EC)DH cipher suite, client authentication with a […]

We are pleased to announce that wolfCrypt now has support for SRP6a (Secure Remote Password Protocol version 6a). SRP is a password authentication and key-exchange protocol suitable for authenticating users and exchanging keys over an untrusted network designed by Thomas Wu at the Computer Science Department of Stanford University. The SRP implementation can be enabled […]

On Thursday, June 11th, Facebook open-sourced a new software development tool called Infer–a next generation static analyzer. Static analysis is the process of using a tool to scan for bugs in source code without actually running a program. Infer has the ability to detect null pointer access errors, as well as resource and memory leaks. […]

As stated in the TLS 1.1 and 1.2 protocol definitions (RFC 4346, RFC 5246), “The primary goal of the TLS protocol is to provide privacy and data integrity between two communicating applications.” TLS 1.2 is an improvement to the TLS 1.1 standard, but how exactly do they differ? What was changed in TLS 1.2 to […]

wolfSSL, in partnership with Security Innovation, has added support for the proposed “Quantum-safe hybrid” ciphersuite. Having this cipher suite supported in the wolfSSL embedded TLS library allows two parties to use any existing ciphersuite and “quantum-safe” any traffic protected by that ciphersuite. This means that an attacker who records the traffic and later develops a quantum computer […]

wolfSSL (formerly CyaSSL) recently added a build option called “Max Strength”. This build option forces most cipher suites to be disabled at compile time to prevent their accidental use during run time. Options such as MD5, 3DES, and ARC4 are left out of the build completely. The cipher suites that are enabled by default have […]