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    i.MX6 CAAM with Integrity OS

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    wolfSSL provides support for the i.MX6 and i.MX7, which can use NXP’s Cryptographic Assistance and Assurance Module (CAAM) to perform hardware encryption. This use of hardware encryption provides a significant performance increase when used on larger buffers, which can be seen on wolfSSL’s benchmark page.  To show this performance increase in action,...
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    NXP CAU, mmCAU, and LTC Hardware Cryptography with TLS 1.3

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    As you may know, wolfSSL includes support for offloading cryptography operations into NXP Coldfire and Kinetis devices that include the CAU, mmCAU, or LTC hardware crypto modules. Taking advantage of these modules improves performance of both the cryptography and the SSL/TLS layer running on top of it.
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    wolfSSL Renesas CS+ Support

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    Are you a user of Renesas CS+?  If so, you will be happy to know that wolfSSL recently added support and example project files to the wolfSSL embedded SSL/TLS library for CS+! Renesas CS+ (formerly CubeSuite+) integrated development environment provides simplicity, security, and ease of use in developing software through...
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    OpenSSL Compatibility Layer Expands with 15 New Functions

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    As many of our readers know, the wolfSSL embedded SSL/TLS library includes an OpenSSL compatibility layer.  This layer makes it easier to replace OpenSSL with wolfSSL in applications that have previously been using OpenSSL. As wolfSSL is ported into more and more projects that have previously used OpenSSL, our compatibility...
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    Renesas e2studio Support

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    Are you a user of Renesas e² studio?  If so, you will be happy to know that wolfSSL recently added support and example project files to the wolfSSL embedded SSL/TLS library for e² studio! Renesas e² studio is a development environment based on the popular Eclipse CDT (C/C++ Development Tooling),...
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    TLS 1.3 combined with FIPS (#FIPS #TLS13)

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    wolfSSL is a lightweight TLS/SSL library that is targeted for embedded devices and systems. It has support for the TLS 1.3 protocol, which is a secure protocol for transporting data between devices and across the Internet. In addition, wolfSSL uses the wolfCrypt encryption library to handle its data encryption. Because...
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    Lighttpd support for wolfSSL

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    Lighttpd master now supports wolfSSL with autoconf, meson, CMake, and SCons. Build wolfSSL using: ./configure --enable-lighty make sudo make install Build Lighttpd using: ./configure --with-wolfssl=yes or cmake -DWITH_WOLFSSL=ON .. This work was submitted via: https://github.com/lighttpd/lighttpd1.4/pull/92 Current documentation can be found here:https://github.com/dgarske/lighttpd1.4/tree/lighttpd_wolfssl/doc/wolfssl (document is currently being migrated to lighttpd master) For...
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    Securing MySQL (#mysql) with wolfSSL SSL/TLS

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    MySQL (#mysql) currently comes bundled with yaSSL to provide an option for SSL/TLS connections when using a database. A patch for securing MySQL with the wolfSSL embedded SSL/TLS library is available for MySQL version 8.0.0 here https://github.com/wolfSSL/mysql-patch. Along with an increased level of security comes the potential to use progressive...
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