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    wolfSSL Inc: Latest news on FIPS cert #3389

    wolfSSL is extremely proud to announce that an additional 18 OEs (Operating Environments) have been added to cert #3389 with only a 62-day turnaround from the CMVP between submission and approval: Feb 23 2023 - April 26 2023. INFO: Cert Location: https://csrc.nist.gov/projects/cryptographic-module-validation-program/certificate/3389 SunSet Date: 3/3/2024
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    wolfSSL Embraces ASCON Lightweight Cryptography

    The cryptography world is abuzz with the new proposed NIST standard, Ascon. Earlier this year, NIST selected the Ascon family “ for lightweight cryptography applications as it meets the needs of most use cases where lightweight cryptography is required ”. More details can be found at the NIST News Update....
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    OpenSSL 1.1.1 EOL

    Have you heard the news from the OpenSSL blog?  If you are using the 1.1.1 branch of releases of OpenSSL, come September 11, 2023, there will be no more updates. You can get the details here: 
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    DTLS 1.2 and 1.3 Stateless ClientHello Parsing

    wolfSSL implements support for both client side and server side DTLS. The server side requires extra attention when it comes to Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks. One way to mitigate DoS on DTLS servers is to operate statelessly until a cookie exchange is completed with the peer. The cookie exchange is implemented...
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    wolfSSL pthread_rwlock Support

    wolfSSL uses mutexes for most locking synchronization. In release 5.6.0 we have added support for pthread_rwlock_t (https://github.com/wolfSSL/wolfssl/pull/5952 and https://github.com/wolfSSL/wolfssl/pull/6086). It is currently implemented in the session caching logic. This will speed up multi-threaded servers by allowing multiple threads to read from the cache simultaneously. We also recommend multi-threaded servers to...
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    wolfSSL Supported Open Source Projects

    wolfSSL makes a great effort to support many different projects. We provide patches for projects to leverage our OpenSSL Compatibility Layer and work with maintainers to upstream support whenever possible. This blog is a list of currently supported open source projects. The support type denotes how wolfSSL is supported. “Patch”...
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