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Welcome to the third episode of the Getting Started series! Join us for “Getting Started with wolfMQTT” on February 15th at 10 am PT, presented by wolfSSL Senior Software Engineer, Eric. Explore how wolfMQTT, a client implementation of the MQTT protocol written in C for embedded systems, can bolster your IoT security. Eric will guide you from foundational concepts to advanced features, empowering you to effectively utilize the capabilities of wolfMQTT.

In this webinar, you’ll delve into key topics including:

• The significance of having a dedicated IoT protocol
• An overview of the MQTT protocol
• Specifications supported by the wolfMQTT client
• Understanding the architecture of wolfMQTT
• Configuration and build processes
• Real-world wolfMQTT examples
• Insights into future development plans

Watch the webinar now: Getting Started with wolfMQTT

Don’t miss this opportunity to enhance your understanding of MQTT and strengthen your security infrastructure with wolfMQTT. Watch now!

As always, our webinars will include Q&A sessions throughout the webinar. If you have questions about any of the above, please contact us at facts@wolfSSL.com or call us at +1 425 245 8247.

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Get ready to learn the best practice for satellite cybersecurity with wolfSSL.

Join us for a webinar on “Solutions for the Satellite Industry” on February 8th at 10 am PT presented by wolfSSL Software Engineer, András. He will delve into robust solutions and best practices to safeguard satellite cybersecurity. This webinar is a must-attend for professionals in the aerospace and cybersecurity industries.

Watch the webinar here: Solutions for the Satellite Industry

Sneak Peek of the webinar:

• Introduction to wolfSSL
• Key wolfSSL Technologies for Satellite Security
• High-Quality SSL/TLS Testing
• Q&A

Don’t miss out on this opportunity to gain insights into the latest advancements in satellite cybersecurity. András will guide you through how FIPS, wolfBoot (Secure Boot), wolfTPM, wolfEntropy, and SSL/ TLS testing contribute to a secure satellite environment. Discover how wolfSSL conducts testing to ensure the highest level of security in SSL/TLS protocols. Watch now and get answers to your specific questions from András.

As always, our webinars will include Q&A sessions throughout. If you have questions about any of the above, please contact us at facts@wolfSSL.com or call us at +1 425 245 8247.

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The security of wolfSSL products is always on the wolfSSL team’s mind and holds high importance. Conducting regular, diligent, and well-planned testing helps maintain wolfSSL’s robustness and security. The wolfSSL team strives to write and maintain clean, readable, and understandable code.

1. API Unit Testing: Unit tests are in place to test API functions for correct behavior. This helps maintain library consistency across releases and as the code evolves. It ensures delivery of a high quality, well tested API to end users with each software release. API unit tests are run with each “make check” of wolfSSL.
2. Cipher Suite Testing: wolfSSL supports an extensive list of cipher suites, which are all tested with every “make check” using the wolfSSL example client and example server. Each cipher suite is tested not only in the default configuration, but also in non-blocking mode and with client authentication both turned on and off.
3. Algorithm Testing: The security of the SSL/TLS implementation depends on the correctness and robustness of the underlying cryptography library, wolfCrypt. The wolfssl team tests all algorithms using NIST test vectors in addition to running a CAVP test harness used for FIPS 140-2 and 140-3 validations. Testing is done on both big and little endian platforms for portability.
4. Benchmark Testing: The wolfSSL team engages in the ever expanding universe of benchmark testing, taking into consideration sizing, transmission rates, connection speeds, and cryptography performance. A version of the benchmark suite is included in every download for users to enjoy!
5. Static Analysis: wolfSSL does static analysis on the entire codebase using not only one, but multiple different static analysis tools. Currently Coverity Scan, CodeSonar, clang scan-build, and Facebook infer. These tools help to automatically find bugs including those on low-traffic code paths.
6. Detecting Memory Errors: Memory errors are mitigated by using valgrind on a regular and automated basis. This helps find memory errors including invalid access, use of undefined values, incorrect freeing of dynamic memory, and memory leaks.
7. Interop Testing: Interoperability checks are done with other Open Source TLS implementations, including OpenSSL, BoringSSL, and GnuTLS. This helps to catch any protocol implementation errors in either wolfSSL or the implementation being tested against. Testing is also done outside of a closed environment by connecting to servers in the real world running unknown SSL/TLS implementations.
8. Real World Builds: Builds with a series of ‘real’ applications, like cURL, wget, pppd, OpenSSH, stunnel, lighttpd, etc. For some wolfSSL customers with top level support, the wolfSSL team also tests building the latest library version against those customer applications.
9. Compiler Testing: Some users compile wolfSSL with a variety of different compilers. As such, wolfSSL tests compilation with many different compilers and toolchains including but not limited to: gcc/g++, clang, icc, Visual Studio, CodeWarrior, KDS, LPCXpresso, MPLAB XC, TI CCS, Keil, IAR, Espressif IDF, Cygwin, MinGW, CrossWorks, Arduino, Wind River Workbench.
10. Peer Review: More eyes on a codebase reduces bugs that end up in a final product. Internally, the wolfSSL team operates using a “Fork and Pull Request” model. This means that every commit that makes it into the wolfSSL master branch has been reviewed and tested by a minimum of two engineers.
11. Code size increase monitoring: wolfSSL has tests that give alarms when a particular commit greatly increases the code size for a particular build. Active Monitoring of how much the code has grown since the last release ensures that it is within an acceptable range.
12. Third Party Testing: wolfSSL code is regularly reviewed by university researchers, customer and user security teams, FIPS and certification labs, and other Open Source users. This helps put more eyes on the code and product architecture.
13. Fuzz Testing: wolfSSL tests using several different software fuzzers, including an in-memory fuzzer, a network fuzzer, OSS-fuzz, libfuzzer, tlsfuzzer, and AFL. Fuzz testing bombards the program with invalid, unexpected, and random data that then allows for observing if there are potential memory leaks or logic errors. This allows us to catch bugs that could turn into potential vulnerabilities if released in a final release.
14. Protocol Analysis: TLS-Attacker, a Java-based framework for analyzing TLS libraries, helps us analyze that wolfSSL correctly conforms to the SSL/TLS specification.
15. Continuous Integration (CI): Leveraging Jenkins as well as GitHub Actions, allows wolfSSL to run tests on each commit submitted to the wolfSSL code repository. Tests run on each commit include testing of the FIPS build, numerous build options (customer/user/common), running valgrind, and doing static analysis with scan-build.
16. Nightly Test Cycle: Each night extended tests are run that last longer than the typical ones during the work day. These extended tests are more in-depth than CI testing and puts results in wolfSSL engineers’ inboxes each morning. Some tests included in the nightly cycle include extended build option testing on multiple platforms with multiple compilers, and extended fuzz testing.

If you have specific questions about how the wolfSSL team tests, please contact us at facts@wolfssl.com or call us at +1 425 245 8247. If you would like the wolfSSL team to include your SSL/TLS or crypto implementation in interop testing, please let us know! Likewise, if you would like to include wolfSSL in your own test framework, the wolfSSL team would be happy to discuss.

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Here at wolfSSL, we love to tout that we have the best tested cryptography library in the world and we stand by that statement 100%. You can even have a look at some of the unit tests in all our products. Simply build any one of our products and execute make check to see our testing in action.

But our testing does not end there. We have a massive continuous integration system that runs tests on:

• nightly basis
• weekly basis
• each time a commit is pushed to a pull request

You can get a hint of what goes on by looking at an active PR for any of our products (https://github.com/wolfSSL/). The content of those tests cannot be made public because some of them contain confidential customer usage patterns.

We test configurations submitted by our Premium support level customers (https://www.wolfssl.com/products/support-and-maintenance/). This allows them to rest assured that when we have a release, their configuration has been tested during development and will not have unpleasant surprises when they integrate it. Are you a Premium support level customer who hasn’t sent in your configuration settings for us to add to our continuous integration system? Do it today!!

Are you a customer that has a unique use case for wolfSSL? Feel free to submit some simple sample code that is similar to how you use it in your product. We will be more than happy to consider it for conversion into a test and get it running on our testing rig. Take control of your destiny for future updates of our products!!

Please reach out to support@wolfSSL.com to get the process started!

If you have questions about any of the above, please contact us at facts@wolfSSL.com or call us at +1 425 45 8247.

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Get ready to dive into a world of data transfer libraries with Daniel Stenberg, the founder of cURL, at FOSDEM 2024 on February 3rd and 4th in Brussels, Belgium

Daniel Stenberg, the driving force behind cURL, is a featured speaker at FOSDEM 2024 where he will deliver two presentations. The first presentation, “Broom not included: curling the modern way”, is scheduled for February 3rd at 10:50 am CET in Room UB5.230. The second presentation, “You too could have made curl!”, will take place on February 4th at 10 am CET in Room K1.105 (La Fontaine).

Explore the prowess of cURL and libcurl, widely recognized as premier data transfer libraries with URLs for developers. You can expect to gain comprehensive insights during the session, including technical updates, invaluable command lines, the trurl, recently created companion tool for URL manipulations and much more. Join this session to unlock the potential of cURL, elevating your technical skills to the next level. Don’t miss this chance to delve deep into cURL’s capabilities and enhance your skills!

Mark your calendar for insightful talks:

1. Broom not included: curling the modern way
   • Date: February 3rd, 2024 at 10:50 am CET
   • Location: Room UB5.230
2. You too could have made curl!
   • Date: February 4th, 2024 at 10 am CET
   • Location: Room K1.105(La Fontaine)

Find wolfSSL and cURL at Building K on level 1, Stand #3 in the IoT area. Daniel Stenberg will be available at stand #3 on February 3rd from 11:30 am to 1:00 pm and February 4th from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm to address your questions. Additionally, cURL and wolfSSL stickers will be available at the stand!

If you have questions about any of the above, please contact us at facts@wolfSSL.com or call us at +1 425 245 8247.

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Join us for a webinar on ‘Secure and Reliable Firmware Updates with wolfBoot,’ presented by wolfSSL Senior Engineer and security expert, Daniele on February 1st at 10 am PT.

Watch the webinar here: Secure and Reliable Firmware Updates with wolfBoot

Explore the challenges associated with connected embedded systems that allow remote updates of various artifacts and how a secure boot mechanism emerges as a robust solution. In such systems, it is crucial to address security risks. Daniele will provide a comprehensive guide on securing embedded systems, emphasizing the importance of a secure boot mechanism and showcasing wolfBoot as a leading solution in the realm of firmware security.

Don’t miss out on this opportunity to learn the best solutions for securing your firmware. Daniele will take you through the possibilities of real-life secure firmware update solutions, designed using the latest standards and best cryptographic algorithms. Watch it now!

As always, our webinars will include Q&A sessions throughout. If you have questions about any of the above, please contact us at facts@wolfSSL.com or call us at +1 425 245 8247.

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