Did you know that wolfSSL is available for iPhone/iOS? We’ve been building and testing wolfSSL on iOS now for the last couple of years. As wolfSSL users know, the code is extremely portable. When iPhone originally launched, we decided to build for the device as yet another test for portability. Everything moved over smoothly and […]
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The Benefit of Stream Ciphers
Ever wondered what the difference between a block cipher and a stream cipher was? A block cipher has to be encrypted in chunks that are the block size for the cipher. For example, AES has block size of 16 bytes. So if you`re encrypting a bunch of small, 2 or 3 byte, chucks back and […]
Read MoreMore TagThe Next wolfSSL Embedded SSL release
Hi! The next wolfSSL release should be ready this week, barring unforeseen testing issues. Our big feature addition for this release is key generation. The addition of key generation to wolfSSL clears the way for us to add certificate generation, with planned availability in September. We’ve had a number of our commercial customers as well […]
Read MoreMore TagwolfSSL embedded ssl and IPv6
If you are an adopter of IPv6 and want to use an embedded ssl implementation, then you may have been wondering if wolfSSL supports IPv6. The answer is yes, we do support wolfSSL running on top of IPv6. Note that our current test applications default to IPv4, so as to apply to a broader number […]
Read MoreMore TagTop Five Reasons to choose wolfSSL as your Embedded SSL solution
1. Size: wolfSSL can be built as small as 30k.2. Supports the newest standards: TLS 1.1 and 1.2, DTLS, and Stream Ciphers3. Multi-platform4. Royalty Free5. OpenSSL compatibility API to ease porting into older applications
Read MoreMore TagMore on VxWorks vulnerabilities from DarkReading.com
Here’s another informative blog post from John Sawyer of DarkReading: http://www.darkreading.com/blog/archives/2010/08/gaining_a_footh.html.
Read MoreMore TagEmbedded Systems Can Mean Embedded Vulnerabilities
Here’s another warning from the media with regard to adding proper security to embedded systems: https://www.darkreading.com/risk/embedded-systems-can-mean-embedded-vulnerabilities/d/d-id/1134205. It’s a good article that reminds us how many vulnerable embedded systems are out there that need to be retrofitted with embedded ssl.
Read MoreMore TagAnnouncing the yaSSL Embedded Web Server
As stated in previous blog posts, we have ported wolfSSL into a number of embedded web servers on behalf of our customers and community users. wolfSSL can be included in Mongoose , Lighttpd (aka Lighty), Nginx, GoAhead, and others. As a part of the work of enabling these embedded web servers to use SSL, we […]
Read MoreMore TagwolfSSL competitive upgrade program now available
Competitive upgrade pricing for wolfSSL is now available. We’ll help you move from an outdated or expensive ssl library to wolfSSL with low cost and minimal disturbance to your code base. How does it work? Here’s an outline of the program: 1. You need to currently be using a commercial competitor to wolfSSL. 2. You […]
Read MoreMore TagCyaSSL SSL Provider for Android Released – Alpha Version
We have released an Alpha of our Java SSL Provider for the Android Platform. This can be installed alongside the existing Apache Harmony provider and can be used through the javax.net.ssl Java API package. By using our provider, Java developers can use familiar syntax and API calls of Java to gain the speed and size advantages that the […]
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