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The NXP CAAM (Cryptographic Accelerator and Assurance Module) supports offloading cryptographic operations for acceleration along with heightened security. wolfSSL supports accessing the hardware acceleration in many different operating environments, such as with QNX or NXP’s Yocto Linux builds. For QNX builds wolfSSL has targeted specific i.MX devices, check with our manual or support channel to […]

wolfSSL’s asynchronous crypto offloads public-key, cipher, and hashing work to Intel QuickAssist (QAT) hardware. This update (PR #10772) makes that offload use every QAT device in a multi-adapter system, and hardens it for multi-process and CI use. The problem: idle devices Each worker thread binds to one QAT crypto instance, and the driver hands back […]

The RealTek RTL8735B (AmebaPro2) is an Arm Cortex-M33 AIoT SoC with a hardware crypto engine and, importantly, a per-device Hardware Unique Key (HUK) fused into the silicon. The HUK never leaves the chip and cannot be read by software. That makes it an ideal root from which to derive keys that are bound to one […]

wolfSSL has removed CheckOcspResponderChain(), a non-compliant chain walk that authorized any OCSP responder certificate issued by any ancestor of the target certificate’s issuer as of version 5.9.2. RFC 6960 §4.2.2.2 requires that an OCSP response be signed directly by the CA that issued the certificate in question or a delegated responder appointed by that exact […]

wolfSSL now sends the correct alert when a TLS 1.3 server requires the Server Name Indication (SNI) extension and the client fails to include it. Previously, the server sent a generic handshake_failure alert; it now sends the missing_extension alert defined by RFC 8446 for exactly this case. TLS 1.2 and earlier keep the existing handshake_failure […]

wolfSSL has refined its X.509 serial number validation to better handle real-world trust stores. Previously, wolfSSL rejected any certificate with a serial number of 0. While RFC 5280 requires CAs to issue certificates with positive serial numbers, some long-standing self-signed root CA certificates in circulation were created with serial 0, and rejecting them caused otherwise […]