wolfSSL White Papers

Are you interested in reading about some of wolfSSL’s features more in-depth, or looking for instructional white papers related to wolfSSL products?  Below you will find our collection of current white papers related to the wolfSSL embedded SSL/TLS library, wolfCrypt crypto engine, and other products. If you are looking for case studies of where wolfSSL is currently being used, please visit the Case Studies page.

Technology or Feature Related

wolfSSL has support for many features which make using it as an SSL/TLS library simple, cost-effective, and enjoyable.  The following white papers explain some of these features in detail, including how wolfSSL can take advantage of Intel’s hardware-based AES-NI for performance improvements when doing AES operations.

Applying wolfBoot to 11th Gen Intel® Core Processors for Secure Boot

Intel / wolfSSL
March 2023

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Accelerating Cryptographic Performance on the Zynq UltraScale+ MPsoC

Xlinx / wolfSSL
May 2019

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Implementation and Performance of AES-NI in wolfSSL Embedded SSL
Intel / wolfSSL
October 2012

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Product Comparisons

wolfSSL vs MbedTLS
An apples-to-apples benchmark across Intel, ARM (Cortex-A and Cortex-M), and RISC-V targets

wolfSSL
June 2026

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