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    wolfSSL Performance on Intel x86_64 (Part 3)

    • wolfssladmin
    Recent releases of wolfSSL have included new assembly code targeted at the Intel x86_64 platform. Large performance gains have been made and are being discussed over six blog posts of which this is part 3. In this blog, we will talk about the performance of SHA-256 and SHA-512. The most...
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    wolfSSL Performance on Intel x86_64 (Part 2)

    • wolfssladmin
    Recent releases of wolfSSL have included new assembly code targeted at the Intel x86_64 platform. Large performance gains have been made and are being discussed over six blog posts of which this is part 2. In this blog, we will talk about the performance of ChaCha20-Poly1305. ChaCha20-Poly1305 is a relatively...
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    wolfSSL Performance on Intel x86_64 (Part 1)

    • wolfssladmin
    Recent releases of wolfSSL have included new assembly code targeted at the Intel x86_64 platform. Large performance gains have been made which are being discussed over a six blog post series. In this first blog, we will talk about the performance of AES-GCM. The assembly code for AES-GCM has been...
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    SHA-3 Support in wolfSSL #TLS13

    • wolfssladmin
    We’ve fully added support for SHA-3 to the wolfSSL embedded TLS library. We have also included SHA-3 support to HMAC and HKDF. Our SHA-3 offering includes 224, 256, 384, and 512-bit digests. It is tied into our hashing and signature infrastructure, so it will be available to TLS v1.2 or...
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    Job Posting: Embedded Systems Software Engineer

    • wolfssladmin
    wolfSSL is a growing company looking to add a top notch embedded systems software engineer to our organization. wolfSSL develops, markets and sells the leading Open Source embedded SSL/TLS protocol implementation, wolfSSL. Our users are primarily building devices or applications that need security. Other products include wolfCrypt embedded cryptography engine,...
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    Nginx with wolfSSL #TLS13

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    At wolfSSL, we are dedicated to 3rd party integration and have been improving our support for Nginx. wolfSSL now has tested patches for Nginx 1.13.8, 1.12.2 and other point releases.
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    ASN Strict Enforcement

    • wolfssladmin
    Thanks to feedback from Xidian University we’ve improved the strictness of the X.509 checking in the wolfSSL embedded TLS library. Xidian researchers wrote a tool to take the RFC 5280 specification and parse for “MUST” clauses and generate certificates to test these criteria. They found three places wolfSSL was not...
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