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    wolfSSL Renesas Support

    TLS 1.3 has some significant changes from TLS 1.2 in the ordering of handshake messages and this impacts performance. This is the fifth part of six blogs discussing the performance differences observed between TLS 1.2 and TLS 1.3 in wolfSSL and how to make the most of them in your...
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    wolfSSL Apache Mynewt port

    The wolfSSL embedded SSL/TLS library features many different ports, including one for Apache Mynewt. Apache Mynewt is a Real-Time Operating System (RTOS) that is used to build, deploy, and securely manage billions of devices. It is designed for IoT devices that have limited memory and storage and need to run...
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    wolfSSL Apache Port Coming Soon!

    wolfSSL provides the wolfSSL embedded SSL/TLS library, which is a fast, secure, and highly portable implementation of the SSL/TLS protocols. As part of being highly portable, the wolfSSL library is frequently being ported to various other software modules and devices for users to easily implement wolfSSL’s features. One of these...
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    wolfSSL and the Zombie POODLE and GOLDENDOODLE Attacks

    The wolfSSL library is NOT vulnerable to these attacks, thanks to previous fixes we’ve made and our extensive testing. These attacks were presented by Craig Young at BlackHat Asia 3/29/2019 (slides). Both attacks target the MAC and Padding used for TLS v1.2 with AES CBC cipher suites. TLS padding occurs...
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    TLS 1.3 Performance Analysis – Server Pre-Generation

    TLS 1.3 has some significant changes from TLS 1.2 that are targeted at performance. This is the fourth part of six blogs discussing the performance differences observed between TLS 1.2 and TLS 1.3 in wolfSSL and how to make the most of them in your applications. This blog discusses the...
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    TLS 1.3 Performance Analysis – Pre-Shared Key (PSK)

    TLS 1.3 has a different handshake flow when using pre-shared keys and this impacts performance. This is the third part of six blogs discussing the performance differences observed between TLS 1.2 and TLS 1.3 in wolfSSL and how to make the most of them in your applications. This blog discusses...
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    Differences 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...
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    OpenSSL Compatibility Layer Expansion

    Recently, wolfSSL released version 4.0.0 of the wolfSSL embedded SSL/TLS library. This new version includes many new port/feature additions, maintenance updates, and a couple bug fixes. Among those new feature additions includes multiple new API added to wolfSSL’s OpenSSL compatibility layer! The compatibility layer is a series of commonly used...
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