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    SSL and Home Automation

    • wolfssladmin
    We are at Black Hat 2013 this week and have seen some really cool hacks. Today, we saw “Honey, Im Home!! Hacking Z-Wave Home Automation Systems" presented by Behrang Fouladi and Sahand Ghanoun. They demonstrated how easy it is to unlock someones house with a laptop and a sub-$75 radio...
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    Nasty New Car Attacks, Automobile Hacks

    • wolfssladmin
    Carmakers these days are clearly seduced by the power automotive electronics have to help sell their cars.  At wolfSSL, were seeing more and more connected auto devices getting designed (and secured by CyaSSL) in recent years.  All of the carmakers and their suppliers we deal with are quite cognizant of...
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    SSL and Cryptography in Software Defined Networks

    • wolfssladmin
    Hi!  If you follow the networking market, you probably know that Software Defined Networks (SDN) represent a potential tectonic shift in how we think about and design network environments.  The concept has been around since 2005, but has gained significant momentum in the last couple of years, to the point...
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    wolfSSL 2013 First Half Report

    • wolfssladmin
    wolfSSL has made considerable progress in the first half of 2013, including a company name change to wolfSSL,  improvements to the CyaSSL lightweight SSL library, initiation of our FIPS 140-2 certification, and the introduction of our wolfCrypt cryptography library.  Being an open source company, we like to keep our users,...
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    Feedback Requested on Supported ECC Curves

    • wolfssladmin
    The wolfSSL lightweight SSL library has supported ECC (Elliptic curve cryptography) since version 2.4.6 in December of 2012. Currently wolfSSL supports the most common ECC curve type at each bit strength defined by the standard, including the following.SECP160R1SECP192R1   (also called PRIME192V1)SECP224R1SECP256R1   (also called PRIME256V1)SECP384R1SECP521R1wolfSSL defaults to SECP256R1, as is suggested,...
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    Some Notes on Testing wolfSSL

    • wolfssladmin
    We are often asked about how we test wolfSSL.  At this point, we believe we have testing that is quite robust, but we acknowledge that there is no such thing as perfect testing.  With that knowledge in mind, we have the goal of incrementally improving and automating our testing rigs...
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    Reduce Packet Data Overhead in M2M applications with wolfSSL

    • wolfssladmin
    Many of our customers use the wolfSSL lightweight SSL/TLS package in M2M applications where usage is charged based on data transfer.  As such, it becomes important to minimize data transfer rates when running SSL.  Here are a few thoughts on how wolfSSL M2M users can minimize data packet overhead when...
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    Using Maximum Fragment Length with wolfSSL

    • wolfssladmin
    Did you like the addition of SNI in the last wolfSSL release? If so, you probably will like the Maximum Fragment Length extension as well!TLS specifies a fixed maximum plaintext fragment length of 2^14 bytes. It may be desirable for constrained clients to negotiate a smaller maximum fragment length due...
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