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We believe that in today’s world of connected devices and heightened security concerns, digitally signing the firmware that is loaded onto your embedded or mobile device has become a top priority. One of the reasons that embedded RTOS environments do not include digital signature functionality is because it has historically not been a requirement for […]

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With the release of CyaSSL 1.8.0, users are now able to create CA signed x509 v3 certificates. Certificate generation is turned off by default, but may be turned on during the ./configure process with the following option or by defining CYASSL_CERT_GEN in Windows or non-standard environments: –enable-certgen Currently CyaSSL only supports the MD5_WITH_RSA signature algorithm […]

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One of the improvements made in wolfSSL 1.8.0 is lower overall memory use through the use of configurable input / output buffer sizes and less dynamic memory use. wolfSSL 1.8.0 uses small static buffers for input and output. They default to 128 bytes and are controlled by the RECORD_SIZE define in cyassl_int.h. If an input […]

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With the release of wolfSSL 1.8.0 we have made wolfSSL even more portable with the addition of a C Standard Library Abstraction Layer.  This means that wolfSSL may now be built without parts of the C Standard Library and user-defined functions may be used instead. The C Standard Library consists of a set of sections of […]

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One of the community projects which uses wolfSSL is the Gargoyle Router. If you haven`t heard about the Gargoyle Router, it is an interface for small, widely available routers such as the Linksys WRT54G series or the Fonera. Adding additional functionality to the normal router firmware, it is based on the kamikaze release of the […]

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We’re a fan of Ivan Ristic, and suggest you follow his blog at http://blog.ivanristic.com/.  We enjoy his work and appreciate his occasional constructive criticism of our work.  One of his recent presentations caught our eye.  It’s motivating and packed with ideas regarding SSL.  Check it out here:  http://blog.ivanristic.com/2010/11/stop-complaining-and-solve-a-security-problem-instead.html. We like the title:  Stop Complaining and Solve […]

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See their picks here:  https://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1258133.  We’re keenly interested in Augmented Reality and Automotive Radar for personal reasons.  It’s just good and useful stuff that will make our lives better.  For business reasons, we’re closely following Personal Power Management, which allows you to see your power consumption in timely (not real timely), but actionable increments.  For those […]

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See here http://www.embeddedinternetdesign.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=228800856 (as of 26 March 2018 at 9:24am MDT, this link no longer works and has no alternative)  for the latest research on the growth and adoption of smart appliances from IMS research.

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2011 looks to be another interesting year in the embedded systems marketplace according to VDC’s predictions outlined here:  https://www.eetimes.com/author.asp?section_id=36&doc_id=1265937. If you’ve been reading our commentary, then you know that we think they’re right on with item 5:  OEMs to increase use of web security test tools.  This just makes a world of sense given the high […]

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So what made it into the wolfSSL Holiday Release?  We think a few items that users will appreciate.  Some concern increased portability through the os_settings.h file and the new C Standard Library Abstraction layer.  Others lower memory use through configurable input/output buffer sizes and less dynamic memory use.  For the readers out there we now […]

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