We have had a few inquiries about using the wolfSSL embedded SSL/TLS library with secure web sockets lately, and wanted to inform our community that the libwebsockets team has successfully tested with wolfSSL through use of wolfSSL’s OpenSSL compatibility layer. The wolfSSL compatibility layer allows for drop-in replacement of OpenSSL resulting in not only a […]
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CURL 7.65.0 DANCES IN
author: Daniel Stenberg After another eight week cycle was been completed, curl shipped a new release into the world. 7.65.0 brings some news and some security fixes but is primarily yet again a set of bug-fixes bundled up. Remember 7.64.1? As always, download it straight from curl.haxx.se! One fun detail on this release: we have […]
Read MoreMore TagBeta Testing wolfSSL Integration Into Apache
You can be a part of the new industry-changing port that integrates wolfSSL into Apache! The port of the wolfSSL embedded SSL/TLS library to be used with the Apache web server is nearing the point of Beta testing and we will be looking for user feedback. Development branches of the work have a basic connection […]
Read MoreMore TagDifferences between TLS 1.2 and TLS 1.3 (#TLS13)
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 […]
Read MoreMore TagTINY-CURL
Author: Daniel Stenberg curl, or libcurl specifically, is probably the world’s most popular and widely used HTTP client side library counting more than six billion installs. curl is a rock solid and feature-packed library that supports a huge amount of protocols and capabilities that surpass most competitors. But this comes at a cost: it is […]
Read MoreMore TagwolfBoot – wolfSSL’s Secure Bootloader
wolfBoot is wolfSSL’s own implementation of a secure bootloader that leverages wolfSSL’s underlying wolfCrypt module to provide signature authentication for the running firmware. The role of a secure bootloader is to effectively prevent the loading of malicious or unauthorized firmware on the target. Additionally, wolfBoot provides a fail-safe update mechanism, that can be interrupted at any time, and resumed […]
Read MoreMore TagwolfSSL Adds Support for ed25519ctx and ed25519ph
At wolfSSL we have had customers asking us whether we support the Ed25519 signature algorithm using a hash. We are pleased to announce that we now have available all the signature algorithms in RFC8032 including the prehashed version. The original Ed25519 signature algorithm, much to the consternation of hardware vendors, has the message being hashed […]
Read MoreMore TagwolfSSL FIPS-Ready
With the release of wolfSSL 4.0.0, the wolfSSL team has also released a new product: the wolfSSL FIPS Ready library. This product features new, state of the art concepts and technology. In a single sentence, wolfSSL FIPS Ready is a testable and free to download open source embedded SSL/TLS library with support for FIPS validation, […]
Read MoreMore TagwolfCrypt FIPS 140-3
FIPS 140-3 has been approved, and wolfCrypt will be FIPS 140-3 validated! On March 22, 2019 Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-3 was approved by the Secretary of Commerce. FIPS 140-3 is an incremental advancement of FIPS 140-2, which now standardizes on the ISO 19790:2012 and ISO 24759:2017 specifications. Historically, ISO 19790 was based on […]
Read MoreMore TagIntel’s Extended Instructions Accelerate AES performance on AMD Processors
Now compatible with AMD processors, enabling the intelasm option for wolfSSL will utilize expanded capabilities of your processor that can dramatically enhance performance. The instruction sets leveraged when the configure option is enabled include AVX1, AVX2, BMI2, RDRAND, RDSEED, AESNI, and ADX. These were first introduced into Intel processors and AMD processors have started adopting […]
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