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    Keep Updated on yaSSL News

    • wolfssladmin
    The yaSSL crew believes that keeping our users up to date on company and product news is very important. With this in mind, we have tried to offer many forms and outlets for you to follow our news. Currently, you can read our news and keep up to date in...
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    Security of SCADA Programs

    • wolfssladmin
    A post that recently caught our eye, titled “Dozens of exploits released for popular SCADA programs” by Dan Goodin at theregister.co.uk, reveals that SCADA systems may not be as secure as some people think.  In the article, Luigi Auriemma, one of the researchers who released the vulnerabilities, stated that “SCADA...
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    wolfSSL Build Option in CURL

    • wolfssladmin
    With the next release of CURL and libcurl, 7.21.5, there will be support for the wolfSSL Embedded SSL Library. This allows CURL to leverage the benefits of the wolfSSL library - including its small footprint, optimizations for embedded environments, and support for TLS 1.2.First released in 1997, CURL (“Client for...
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    Born in the USA!

    • wolfssladmin
    Hi!  We’ve received a lot of questions recently about the origins of the wolfSSL software package.  We get asked where was it developed, and by who?  The questions usually come from US government agencies and their contractors.  Simply stated, mes amis, wolfSSL was Born in the USA and written by...
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    Encrypted PKCS#8 Support in wolfSSL

    • wolfssladmin
    PKCS (Public Key Cryptography Standards) refers to a group of standards created and published by RSA Security, Inc. PKCS#8 is designed as the Private-Key Information Syntax Standard, which is used to store private key information - including a private key for some public-key algorithm and set of attributes. The PKCS#8...
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    Seeking Collaborators for Secure Firmware Update System

    • wolfssladmin
    One of the upcoming projects on our list is a Secure Firmware Update System. As we have stated before, we believe that digitally signing the firmware that is loaded onto your devices is a very high priority. Digitally signing your firmware updates offers several benefits, including: - Protecting against updates...
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    Answers to Common Questions from RSA - Part 5

    • wolfssladmin
    Welcome to part five, the final post in our series of commonly-asked questions that we were asked at the 2011 RSA conference.  In this post, we will be covering the following questions: Where is yaSSL located? Does the yaSSL Embedded Web Server compete with nginx? Q:  Where is yaSSL located?...
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    Answers to Common Questions from RSA - Part 4

    • wolfssladmin
    Welcome to part four in our series of commonly-asked questions that we were asked at the 2011 RSA conference. In this post, we will be covering the following questions:What does wolfSSL have as far as Certificate Management?Is the yaSSL Embedded Web Server similar to Apache / mod_ssl?Q:  What does wolfSSL...
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    NTRU Resistant to Quantum Attacks

    • wolfssladmin
    As you know, yaSSL has partnered with Security Innovations to provide wolfSSL with NTRU cipher suites. Recently, Security Innovation and wolfSSL won the “Tomorrow’s Technology Today” award for Mobile Encryption. In addition, Security Innovation won the award for “Cryptography” for NTRU.One of the advantages that NTRU offers is resistance to...
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    yaSSL Embedded Web Server Benchmark

    • wolfssladmin
    We recently ran a benchmark on the yaSSL Embedded Web Server and wanted to share the results. Our benchmarking tool was Apache ab. To learn more about ab, you can reference Apache’s documentation page (http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/programs/ab.html), or if it is installed on your system, look at the ab man page (man...
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