Recent releases of wolfSSL have included new assembly code targeted at the Intel x86_64 platform. Large performance gains have been made and are being discussed over six blog posts of which this is part 3. In this blog, we will talk about the performance of SHA-256 and SHA-512. The most commonly used digest algorithms are […]
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Are you a code contributor to the wolfSSL embedded SSL/TLS library, or one of wolfSSL’s other projects? If so, and you are interested in receiving some wolfSSL Contributor stickers, email us at facts@wolfssl.com with a quick mention of your contribution and we will mail you some free stickers! wolfSSL products are Open Source and dual licensed […]
Read MoreMore TagwolfSSL Performance on Intel x86_64 (Part 2)
Recent releases of wolfSSL have included new assembly code targeted at the Intel x86_64 platform. Large performance gains have been made and are being discussed over six blog posts of which this is part 2. In this blog, we will talk about the performance of ChaCha20-Poly1305. ChaCha20-Poly1305 is a relatively new authenticated encryption algorithm. It […]
Read MoreMore TagwolfSSL Performance on Intel x86_64 (Part 1)
Recent releases of wolfSSL have included new assembly code targeted at the Intel x86_64 platform. Large performance gains have been made which are being discussed over a six blog post series. In this first blog, we will talk about the performance of AES-GCM. The assembly code for AES-GCM has been rewritten to take best advantage of the […]
Read MoreMore TagwolfSSL 3.15.3 Now Available
wolfSSL is proud to announce release version 3.15.3 of the wolfSSL embedded TLS library. This release contains bug fixes and new features, which include: ECDSA blinding added for hardening against side channel attacks Fix for OpenSSL compatibility layer build with no server (NO_WOLFSSL_SERVER) and no client (NO_WOLFSSL_CLIENT) defined Intel assembly instructions support for compatible AMD processors […]
Read MoreMore TagwolfSSL in stunnel TLS Proxy
Since version 3.6.6, wolfSSL has had continually improving support for stunnel, a lightweight TLS proxy, designed to add SSL/TLS encryption to unsecured applications without changes to the program`s source code. Licensed under GNU GPLv2 and with an alternative commercial option, stunnel can be utilized to secure a host of different applications, including: mail exchange (SMTP, […]
Read MoreMore TagwolfMQTT connects with IBM’s Watson IoT Platform
With the latest wolfMQTT v1.1 release you can easily connect your devices running wolfMQTT to IBM’s Watson IoT Platform. Trying out wolfMQTT is simple using the provided MQTT client example and your IBM Cloud account. The default example provides a link to the IBM Quickstart broker where you can view a graph generated by the […]
Read MoreMore TagwolfSSL now has lwIP support
The wolfSSL (formerly CyaSSL) embedded SSL library supports lwIP, the light weight internet protocol implementation, out of the box. The user merely needs to define WOLFSSL_LWIP or uncomment the line /* #define WOLFSSL_LWIP */ in os_settings.h to use wolfSSL with lwIP. The focus of lwIP is to reduce RAM usage while still providing a […]
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Our third post in our PKCS series, we will be looking at PKCS #5. PKCS #5 is the Password-Based Cryptography Specification and is currently defined by version 2.0 of the specification. It is defined in RFC 2898 http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2898. It applies a pseudorandom function, such as a cryptographic hash, cipher, or HMAC to the input password or passphrase […]
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A stream cipher encrypts plaintext messages by applying an encryption algorithm with a pseudorandom cipher digit stream (keystream). Each bit of the message is encrypted one by one with the corresponding keystream digit. Stream ciphers are typically used in cases where speed and simplicity are both requirements. If a 128 bit block cipher such as […]
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