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    wolfSSL Support for DO-178 DAL A

    • wolfssladmin
    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...
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    wolfSSL FIPS Ready and curl (#wolfSSL #wolfCrypt #curl)

    • wolfssladmin
    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...
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    wolfSSL + Nginx

    • wolfssladmin
    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...
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    What is Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP)

    • chris
    Online Certificate Status Protocol or OCSP is an Internet protocol that is used to obtain the revocation status of an X.509 digital certificate. An OCSP client will send a status request to an OCSP responder and receive information if the certificate is valid or revoked. A good response shows that...
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    wolfSSL + Apache httpd

    • chris
    In the latest wolfSSL releases, we have added 200+ new API to our OpenSSL compatibility layer. Many of these new API were added for providing support for Apache HTTP Server.
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    How to use TLS with JAVA

    • chris
    When developing an application that needs to communicate securely with another device TLS is a great option. The framework in place for TLS connections with JAVA is JSSE (Java Secure Socket Extension). JSSE is a set of interfaces that can be called to abstract the TLS process and make it...
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    Improved NXP MMCAU Crypto Hardware Performance

    • chris
    The NXP Memory-Mapped Cryptographic Acceleration Unit (mmCAU) is on many Kinetis microcontrollers. It improves symmetric AES and SHA performance as compared to our software based implementation. wolfSSL version 4.2.0 enhanced mmCAU support to use multiple blocks against hardware and optimize to avoid memory copies (memcpy) when possible. This resulted in...
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    Updates to RSA-PSS salt lengths

    • chris
    In our new release of wolfSSL 4.3.0 we have added updates to RSA-PSS salt lengths. The macro WOLFSSL_PSS_SALT_LEN_DISCOVER value into wc_RsaPSS_Verify_ex() attempts to discover salt length and can use larger salt lengths.
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