RECENT BLOG NEWS

The holiday release of wolfSSL, version 4.3, is now available! This release has fantastic new features, optimizations, and bug fixes. Some of the exciting new features that were added to the wolfSSL library are summarized below: The addition of –enable-libwebsockets option for support of libwebsockets build was added in the release! Updated support of NGINX […]

With each release of the wolfSSL embedded SSL/TLS library, new improvements and feature additions are always included. The wolfSSL team has made sure to improve and update support for various open source projects. This holiday release wolfSSL 4.3.0, we are happy to say we have improved our support for Nginx. wolfSSL has updated support for […]

As many people know, the OpenSSL project is struggling with FIPS, and their new FIPS release is not expected until mid 2021. The version of OpenSSL that supports FIPS is now in End Of Life and is no longer supported. This means that OpenSSL users will not have a supported FIPS Object Module for over […]

Benchmark values of the wolfSSL embedded SSL/TLS library running on Xilinx boards, including the ZCU102, have been collected and are up for viewing. Our friends over at Xilinx have a white paper posted that goes into detail about the benchmark values here: https://www.xilinx.com/support/documentation/white_papers/wp512-accel-crypto.pdf. This shows how much faster applications can perform secure operations when incorporating the hardware acceleration […]

wolfSSL’s embedded SSL/TLS library has included support for TLS 1.3 since early releases of the TLS 1.3 draft. Since then, wolfSSL has remained up-to-date with the TLS 1.3 specification. In this post, the major upgrades of TLS 1.3 from TLS 1.2 are outlined below: TLS 1.3 This protocol is defined in RFC 8446. TLS 1.3 […]

wolfSSL now provides support for complete RTCA DO-178C level A certification! wolfSSL will offer DO-178 wolfCrypt as a commercial off -the-shelf (COTS) solution for connected avionics applications. Adherence to DO-178C level A will be supported through the first wolfCrypt COTS DO-178C certification kit release that includes traceable artifacts for the following encryption algorithms: SHA-256 for […]

wolfSSL FIPS Ready Along with the recent release of wolfSSL v4.1.0, wolfSSL has updated its support for the wolfCrypt FIPS Ready version of the wolfSSL library. wolfCrypt FIPS Ready is our FIPS enabled cryptography layer included in the wolfSSL source tree that can be enabled and built. To elaborate on what FIPS Ready really means: you do […]

The wolfSSL embedded SSL/TLS library provides support for various open source projects, including Nginx. For those who are unfamiliar, Nginx is a high-performance, high-concurrency web server. Like wolfSSL, it is also compact, fast, and highly scalable. Additionally, wolfSSL also provides support for TLS 1.3 and features such as OCSP, so Nginx servers can be configured with the latest […]

As many people know, the OpenSSL project is struggling with FIPS, and their new FIPS release is not expected until December 2020. The version of OpenSSL that supports FIPS goes into End Of Life and is no longer supported in December of 2019. This means that OpenSSL users will not have a supported package for […]

Remote firmware updates for embedded systems Firmware updates are one of the most important factors to take into account very early in the process of  starting the development of any IoT project. When the software is maintained by a development team, anything that goes wrong can be fixed on the field and new features can […]