RECENT BLOG NEWS

The CyaSSL embedded SSL library has had support for TLS 1.2 since version 1.1.0 in September of 2009 (over a year and a half ago).  We realize that many people don’t know the difference between TLS 1.1 and TLS 1.2, and we wanted to give some quick highlights on the differences between these two protocol […]

If you`ve been keeping an eye on our blog lately, you`ve probably noticed our series of blog posts about new features and changes we have made in wolfSSL 2.0. If you`re as excited as we are about our next release, we hope you enjoy the following video link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jK-NcRmVcw Release Candidate 1 for wolfSSL 2.0 […]

Here`s the third part in a four part series giving a more detailed report on some of the new features present in the recent wolfSSL release. • Runtime hooks for logging.  The wolfSSL embedded SSL library has had the ability to do logging when debug is enabled for some time.  Now, logging callback functions can […]

We wanted to let our followers know that we`re in the process of porting wolfSSL to FreeRTOS/OpenRTOS. FreeRTOS is a real-time operating system for embedded devices which is designed to be small and simple. Currently, it officially supports 27 architectures and is downloaded over 77 thousand times every year. Like wolfSSL, FreeRTOS is portable, open […]

We want to announce that the wolfSSL embedded SSL library has been ported to the popular KLone Web Application Framework and is now available as a build option in KLone 2.4.0! KLone is a multi-platform web application development framework which is targeted specifically for embedded systems and appliances.  It not only includes a full-featured web […]

Here`s the second part in a four part series giving a more detailed report of some of the new features present in the recent wolfSSL release. • UID parsing for x509.  Certificates that contain UIDs now have the UID saved for retrieval by wolfSSL.  No additional function calls are needed as the UID is contained […]

Hi!  In the last 9 months, we’ve made great strides in improving our documentation.  However, we recognize that more work needs to be done.  We primarily want to make it easy for someone who is new to SSL to get started and be productive and comfortable with the technology. One of the documents that we […]

Here`s a more detailed report on some of the new features that are in the recent wolfSSL 2.0 release. wolfSSL 2.0 RC1 is available for download from our Downloads page. * SHA-256 cipher suites are now supported. The new suites include: TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA256TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA256TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA256TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA256 No action is needed to include these suites, they`re in by default. * […]

wolfSSL 2.0.0 Release Candidate 1 is now available for download on our website.  The release is chunk full of new features including: – SHA-256 cipher suites– Root Certificate Verification (instead of needing all certs in the chain)– PKCS #8 private key encryption (supports PKCS #5 v1-v2 and PKCS #12)– Serial number retrieval for x509– PBKDF2 […]

Have you ever been curious about what performance impact SSL has when used with MySQL? We recently benchmarked SSL vs non-SSL performance in MySQL using yaSSL. yaSSL is bundled with source distributions of MySQL by default. We compared both the footprint size as well as average query times for SELECT queries (measured with the sysbench […]