wolfSSL 2019 Annual Report

We not only remained far ahead of our competitors in 2019, but we also proceeded to extend our lead with massive success and growth. We grew our business dramatically, primarily based on our technological superiority and ongoing investments in testing and quality. We delivered TLS 1.3 ahead of the market, MISRA-C cryptography for the automotive market, FIPS for our government consumers and DO-178 for avionics. We also remain the best-tested product on the market, as witnessed by our additional fuzz testing resources from both internal and external sources. We have also been through a number of additional code audits from our large consumers. Finally, we engaged some of the best code auditors and testers in the world to review our code. Lots of testing and lots of eyeballs have come together to produce the best-tested TLS and cryptography code on the market today. Thank you for your interest in wolfSSL! We are off to a great start in 2020 and will strive to live up to your expectations again in the rest of 2020!

Reminder: If your TLS and cryptography provider does not do fuzz testing, you are exposed.

wolfSSL Technical Progress

A total of 4 releases of the wolfSSL embedded TLS library were delivered in 2019, each with bug fixes, enhancements, and new feature additions. Highlights of these releases included:

1. New Hardware and OS Ports

2. New Software Ports!

Apache web server (–enable-apache-httpd, WOLFSSL_APACHE_HTTPD)
OpenVSwitch
Google WebRTC
Over 198 new OpenSSL compatibility API added
Qt (–enable-qt, –enable-qt-test, WOLFSSL_QT)
OpenVPN

3. Updates to Existing Ports

Arduino (updated/refactored default settings, improved sketch examples)
Xilinx (updates to Xilinx FreeRTOS build)
Nginx (updated 1.15.0 patch, added 1.16.1 and 1.17.5 support)

4. Operating System Updates

Micrium uC/OS-III (port update, adjustments for static and inline macros)
Windows (fixes for custom ECC curves, directory functions)
NetBSD (default build and mutex usage)
SafeRTOS (fixes for build issues)
VxWorks (port updates)
Yocto Linux (ease of use improvements, updates, build instructions)

5. Compiler and IDE Updates

IAR-EWARM (Cortex-M changes, compiler warning fixes)
Renesas CS+ (improve user settings support, updated examples)
XCode (Project file update, iPhone simulator on i386 build fixes)
Visual Studio (fixes for build warnings, wrapper for snprintf)
Cygwin (fixes for visibility tags)

6. TLS 1.3 Updates

Better Interop
- Interop fixes and better version negotiation
Better Portability
- Portability improvements (simplify time requirement, XTIME_MS)
Better Testing
- Additional fuzz testing!
- Automated testing of select Embedded Targets
- Better customer testing (known use-cases and configurations)
More Cipher Suites
- Addition of NULL cipher suites (TLS_SHA256_SHA256, TLS_SHA384_SHA384)

7. New Hardware Crypto Support

ARM CryptoCell-310 on nRF52840
Renesas TSIP on RX65N
PKCS#11 support for HMAC, AES-CBC, and RNG
Intel QuickAssist v1.7 driver support
Intel QuickAssist RSA key generation and SHA-3 support
STM32WB PKA ECC signature verification

8. Improvements to Existing Hardware Crypto Support

STM32 (improved AES-GCM performance)
STSAFE (wolfSSL crypto callback support, better error code handling)
TI (updates to existing hardware crypto)
NXP mmCAU performance improvements (35-78%!)
Crypto callbacks (added 3DES support, improved features)
Fixes to Microchip ATECC508/608A, AES-NI, AVX2, ARMv8, devcrypto/afalg, ST CubeMX

9. New and Updated Algorithms

Addition of Ed25519ctx and Ed25519ph (sign/verify – RFC 8032)
Addition of Blake2s (32-bit Blake2 support)
CMS / PKCS#7 Improvements

10. Algorithm Performance Optimization

ARM Architecture
- ChaCha20 using SIMD NEON extension
- Poly1305 using SIMD NEON extension
- Curve25519/Ed25519
- SHA-384/512 using SIMD NEON extension

11. New and Updated Build Options

“–enable-ecccustcurves=all” – Enable all curve types
“–enable-16bit” – Enable 16-bit compiler support
“–enable-rsavfy” – RSA verify only build
“–enable-rsapub” – RSA public only build
“–enable-armasm” – Updated for ease of use with autotools
“–enable-fallback-scsv” – Fallback SCSV, server-side
“–enable-titancache” – New session cache size, can hold over 2 million sessions

12. TLS Extension Support Additions and Updates

Added TLS Trusted CA extension
Added Encrypt-then-MAC for TLS 1.2 and below
Ability to disable Signature Algorithms extensions
Parsing efficiency improvements to SNI extension
Additional error checking when parsing ALPN

13. Single Precision Math Updates

Cortex-M support
Support for prime checking
Specialized implementation of mod exp when base is 2
Support for 4096-bit RSA and DH operations

14. FIPS 140-2 Validation News!

Support for wolfCrypt FIPS v4.0.0 certificate #3389
New “FIPS Ready” initiative
Addition of wolfRand build option to configure.ac
FIPS 140-2 OE additions
- HP Imaging & Printing Linux 4.9 running on HP PN 3PZ95-60002 with ARM Cortex-A72 with and without PAA**
  - Includes ARMv8/NEON assembly optimizations w/PPA**
- Linux 4.4 (Ubuntu 16.04 LTS) running on Intel Ultrabook 2 in 1 with an Intel® Core™ i5-5300U CPU @2.30GHz x 4 with and without PAA**
  - Includes Intel AESNI and RDSEED support w/ PAA**
- OpenRTOS v10.1.1 running on STMicroelectronics STM32L4R9I-DISCO (Discovery Kit) with a STMicroelectronics STM32L4Rx (no PAA**)
- Windows 10 Enterprise running on Radar FCL Package Utility with Intel® Core™ i7-7820 @2.9GHz x 4 with and without PAA**
  - Includes Intel AESNI and RDSEED support w/ PAA**
- Windows 10 running on Intel Ultrabook 2 in 1 with an Intel® Core™ i5-5300U CPU @2.30GHz x 4 with and without PAA**
  - Includes Intel AESNI and RDSEED support w/ PAA**

** (Processor Algorithm Accelerator)

15. Testing

Fixes for Coverity, scan-build, and cppcheck reports
Enhancements to test cases for increased code coverage
More Pull Request and Nightly tests
ABI compliance testing for a subset of APIs’

16. Examples

New Coldfire MCF5441X NetBurner example
New Visual Studio solution for Microsoft Azure Sphere Devices
New NXP Kinetis Design Studio (KDS) example project

17. Additional Product Enhancements

wolfMQTT (2 releases)
- Multithreaded support (–enable-mt)
- Port Updates
  - Visual Studio
  - NXP MQX / RTCS
  - Microchip Harmony
- Examples
  - New multithread example
  - Azure authentication update
  - Default broker for example
  - New simple client example
  - New non-blocking example

wolfSSH (3 releases)
- Client-side public key authentication support
- Callback function to the check public key sent
- SFTP client and server support for Windows CE, Micrium 3, MQX 4.2
- Port updates for Nucleus and Windows
- Window size optimizations
- Better automated and fuzz testing!
- Updates to non blocking support
- More examples: Renesas CS+, SFTP
- Support for AES-CTR connections added
- Improved interoperability and reliability
- TCP port forwarding
- Global request message support
- Client side pseudo terminal support

wolfTPM (3 releases)
- Support for Microchip ATTPM20
- Support for Barebox
- Support for multiple concurrent process
- Improvements for chip detection, compatibility and startup performance
- Better testing with new API unit test framework
- Support for NV with authentication
- New wrappers and examples for HMAC/AES, ECDHE and PCR
- Added examples for TLS client/server
- Stack use reductions
- Expanded benchmark support
- Crypto callback flags for FIPS mode and Symmetric options
- Support for ST33 TPM2_SetMode command (low-power savings)

wolfBoot (3 releases)
- Compile options for Cortex-M0
- Support for RV32 RISC-V architecture
- STM32F76x/77x hardware-assisted dual-bank support
- New HAL support
  - Atmel SAMR21
  - TI CC26X2
  - NXP/Freescale Kinetis SDK
  - RV32 FE310 (SiFive HiFive-1)
  - STM32L0
  - STM32G0
  - STM32F7
  - STM32H7
  - STM32WB55
- Support for ECC-256 DSA
- Support for external flash for Update/Swap
- Anti-rollback protection
- New Python tools for key generation and signing
- Ability to move flash-writing functions to RAM
- Ability for bootloader to update itself
- TPM2.0 support
  - Integration with wolfTPM
  - Extended STM32 SPI driver to support dual TPM/FLASH communication
  - Tested on STM32 with Infineon 9670
  - RSA 2048 bit digital signature verification

cURL
- New option for commercial support

wolfSSL-py (2 releases)
- Python3 fixes
- Native feature detection

wolfCrypt-py (1 release)
- Added Ed25519 cipher
- Added methods for ECC key handling
- New methods for raw sign/verify on Ed25519
- RSA new methods: make_key() encode_key()
- Native feature detection based on wolfSSL build

wolfSSL Top 10 Blog Posts/Technical Announcements

wolfCrypt as an engine for OpenSSL:
- https://www.wolfssl.com/wolfcrypt-engine-openssl/
Differences between TLS 1.2 and TLS 1.3:
- https://www.wolfssl.com/differences-between-tls-12-and-tls-13-5/
wolfSSL Integration with cURL:
- https://www.wolfssl.com/wolfssl-integration-curl/
wolfSSL FIPS-Ready:
- https://www.wolfssl.com/wolfssl-fips-ready-2/
wolfCrypt FIPS New Certification TLS 1.3 FIPS Support
- https://www.wolfssl.com/tls-1-3-combined-fips-fips-tls13-7/
TLS 1.3 Performance Analysis(series)
wolfSSL Support for DO-178 DAL A:
- https://www.wolfssl.com/wolfssl-announces-addition-support-178-dal-2-2-2/
Remote firmware updates for embedded systems with wolfBoot
- https://www.wolfssl.com/remote-firmware-updates-embedded-systems/#more-36115
OpenSSL Compatibility Layer Expansion
- https://www.wolfssl.com/openssl-compatibility-layer-expansion-2/
Need a Secure Bootloader Misra-C?
- https://www.wolfssl.com/need-secure-bootloader-misra-c/

2019 Webinars

wolfSSL Organizational Growth

wolfSSL represents one of the largest teams focused on a single implementation of TLS/Crypto worldwide. If you know of anyone who fits the following description, please let us know.
- wolfSSL job postings URL (https://uw.joinhandshake.com/jobs/2905385?ref=preview-header-click)
We have expanded our customer base considerably, are now securing connections for over 1000 products, have partner relationships with over 30 vendors, and are securing well over 2 Billion connections on any given day, worldwide.
wolfSSL increased its presence in Europe with 2 new members to the team in 2019.
We got the word out! wolfSSL attended over 62 trade-events (see below). You may ask yourself, why is wolfSSL visiting so many venues? The answer: we are trying to save the world from using bad implementations of Crypto and TLS.

wolfSSL Events and Tradeshows

The wolfSSL team participated in a total of 62 events in 2019, which was up from 50 in 2018 (and 30 in 2017)! As part of these events we were in 44 cities, 18 US states, and 10 countries! The events we participated this last year included:

CES (Las Vegas, NV)
Smart Factory Expo (Tokyo, Japan)
Japan IT Week West (Osaka, Japan)
Embedded Tech India Expo (New Delhi, India)
FOSDEM (Brussels, Belgium)
DistribuTECH (New Orleans, LA)
ET Nagoya (Nagoya, Japan)
Embedded World 2019 (Nuremberg, Germany)
RSA (San Francisco, CA)
Medtec Japan 2019 (Tokyo, Japan)
MtoM Embedded Systems (Paris, France)
Black Hat Asia 2019 (Marina Bay Sands, Singapore)
cURL UP (Prague, Czech Republic)
NXP Tech Days Chicago (Chicago IL)
SIdO (Lyon, France)
Japan IT Week Spring (Tokyo, Japan)
NXP Tech Days MInneapolis (Minneapolis, MN)
IoT Tech Expo Global (London, England)
LinuxFest (Bellingham, WA)
Satellite 2019 (Washington, DC)
NXP Tech Days Seattle (Bellevue, WA)
ICMC (Vancouver, BC)
Internet of Things World (Santa Clara, CA)
ESC Boston (Boston, MA)
Wireless IoT (Tokyo, Japan)
RTCA (Crystal City, VA)
TU Automotive (Zurich, Switzerland)
Risc-V Summit (Zurich, Germany)
NXP Connects (Santa Clara, CA)
Embedded Tech West (Osaka, Japan)
IoT TechExpo Europe (Amsterdam, Netherland)
Sensors Expo West (San Jose, CA)
IoT Security Forum (Tokyo, Japan)
Microchip Master 2019 (Phoenix, AZ)
Black Hat 2019 (Las Vegas, Nevada)
NXP Tech Days (Irvine, CA)
Billington International Cyber Security Summit (Washington, DC)
RIOT Summit (Helsinki, Finland)
NXP Tech Days Boston (Boston, MA)
IoT World Asia 2019 (Singapore)
ST Dev Con (Santa Clara, CA)
FACE Consortium (Dayton, OH)
Federal Identity Forum (Tampa, FL)
ST Tech Tour (Vancouver, BC)
ArmTech Con (San Jose, CA)
NXP Tech Days Detroit (Detroit, MI)
Japan IT Week Autumn (Chiba Makuhari Messe, Japan
ST Tech Tour (Minneapolis, MN)
Xilinx XSWG (Longmont, CO)
Embedded Conference Scandinavia (Stokholm, Sweden)
ETSI/IQC Quantum Safe Cryptography Workshop (Seattle, WA)
ST Tech Tour (Boston, MA)
NXP Tech Days Toronto (Toronto, Canada)
Xilinx XWSG (Herndon, VA)
IoT Tech Expo North America (Stanta Clara, CA)
Embedded Technology/IoT Technology East (Pacifico Yokohama, Japan)
Open Source Conference (Tokyo, Japan)
Embedded Software Engineering Kongress (Sindelfingen, Germany)
Xilinx XWSG (Munich, Germany)
ARM Tech Symposium (Tokyo, Japan)
RSC-V Summit (San Jose, CA)
Tron Show (Tokyo, Japan)

In summary, we had a great year! 2019 was successful on multiple fronts, and we look forward to serving our customers and community with ever more secure and functional software in 2020.

If you have any questions or run into any issues, contact us at facts@wolfssl.com, or call us at +1 425 245 8247.