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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 […]

As you may know, we recently gave a presentation titled “Securing MySQL with a Focus on SSL” at the 2011 O`Reilly MySQL Conference & Expo. We had a great time, met a bunch of awesome people, and learned a lot. Now that the conference is over, we`ve posted our slides to our Media page as […]

yaSSL has made substantial progress in Q1 of 2011, including improvements and expansions in the areas of standards support, new ciphers, code repositories, and new community activity. We like to keep our users up to date about our progress. An overview of yaSSL accomplishments and activities for Q1 can be seen below: wolfSSL– SHA-256 Cipher […]

The yaSSL crew believes that keeping our users up to date on company and product news is very important. With this in mind, we have tried to offer many forms and outlets for you to follow our news. Currently, you can read our news and keep up to date in any of the following ways: […]

A post that recently caught our eye, titled “Dozens of exploits released for popular SCADA programs” by Dan Goodin at theregister.co.uk, reveals that SCADA systems may not be as secure as some people think.  In the article, Luigi Auriemma, one of the researchers who released the vulnerabilities, stated that “SCADA is a critical field but […]

With the next release of CURL and libcurl, 7.21.5, there will be support for the wolfSSL Embedded SSL Library. This allows CURL to leverage the benefits of the wolfSSL library – including its small footprint, optimizations for embedded environments, and support for TLS 1.2. First released in 1997, CURL (“Client for URLs”) is a command […]

Hi!  We’ve received a lot of questions recently about the origins of the wolfSSL software package.  We get asked where was it developed, and by who?  The questions usually come from US government agencies and their contractors.  Simply stated, mes amis, wolfSSL was Born in the USA and written by US citizens. 

PKCS (Public Key Cryptography Standards) refers to a group of standards created and published by RSA Security, Inc. PKCS#8 is designed as the Private-Key Information Syntax Standard, which is used to store private key information – including a private key for some public-key algorithm and set of attributes. The PKCS#8 standard has two versions which […]

One of the upcoming projects on our list is a Secure Firmware Update System. As we have stated before, we believe that digitally signing the firmware that is loaded onto your devices is a very high priority. Digitally signing your firmware updates offers several benefits, including: – Protecting against updates from unauthorized parties – Enabling […]