We are excited to announce the first stable release of wolfCOSE 1.0.0, a complete, zero-allocation C implementation of CBOR (RFC 8949) and COSE (RFC 9052/9053) built on top of wolfCrypt. wolfCOSE brings standards-based signing, encryption, and authentication of CBOR data to even the smallest embedded targets, with a tiny footprint, no dynamic memory, and a […]
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wolfCOSE vs The Field: The smallest and fastest COSE library, now with post-quantum ML-DSA at the same cost.
Scope: ES256 (P-256) COSE_Sign1 size and speed plus post-quantum ML-DSA (FIPS 204), wolfCOSE vs t_cose vs COSE-C, with cross-language and on-device results. Method: one identical operation, every library and crypto backend built from source on one machine with identical flags, dead-code eliminated. Desktop: x86_64 Intel i9-11950H, GCC 14.2. On-device: NUCLEO-H563ZI Cortex-M33 at 250 MHz. June […]
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If you are signing CBOR payloads on an embedded device and you have started worrying about “harvest now, decrypt later,” that worry now extends to signatures too. Long-lived firmware artifacts, attestation reports, supply-chain manifests: anything signed today with ECDSA or RSA can be retroactively forged by an adversary with a cryptographically relevant quantum computer. wolfCOSE […]
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COSE (CBOR Object Signing and Encryption) is a compact binary format for attaching signatures, encryption, or MACs directly to a piece of data, so that the proof travels with the object no matter how it is stored, cached, or forwarded. That is the whole idea. If you know JOSE, JWT, JWS, JWE, COSE is the […]
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We are excited to announce wolfCOSE for wolfCrypt. It is a zero-allocation C library that implements CBOR (RFC 8949) and COSE (RFC 9052/9053). All six COSE message types are supported: Sign1, Sign, Encrypt0, Encrypt, Mac0, and Mac. Multi-signer, multi-recipient, and countersignature variants are included. Cryptographic operations use wolfCrypt under CMVP certificate #4718. That gives COSE […]
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