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    wolfSSL on Microchip

    We recently did a preliminary port of wolfSSL to Microchip’s PIC32, which will be further explained and announced in a future release of wolfSSL. Are you using wolfSSL with a Microchip board? If so, we’re prepared to support you if you run into any problems or issues.Let us know at...
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    Scaling with SSL

    Why is wolfSSL a great solution when you have millions of connections per server?  Memory consumption per connection can be as low as 3k, varying with the size of input and output buffers. This brings wolfSSL’s runtime memory consumption to 3-36kB depending on buffer size. Input and output buffers are...
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    Keep Updated on Recent News

    If you would like to stay updated on yaSSL news, press releases, and new software versions, please follow us on Twitter, Facebook, or follow our blog RSS feed. You can find us at the following locations:Facebook: www.facebook.com/wolfsslTwitter: www.twitter.com/wolfsslBlog RSS: https://www.wolfssl.com/feed/If you have any questions about wolfSSL or the yaSSL Embedded...
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    ARM and Avnet Launch Embedded Software Store

    During the ARM Technology Conference last week, ARM and Avnet Electronics Marketing announced the launch of their online Embedded Software Store. The goal of this store is to provide developers and companies a single place to easily explore, find, and purchase software components, thus helping bring new products to market...
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    wolfSSL Certificate Generation Update

    Weve noticed a trend lately of the latest operating systems and browsers removing support for MD5 signed SSL certificates.  iOS 5, IE 9, and others have moved away from MD5.  wolfSSL now signs certificates with SHA-1 by default and has support for SHA-256 signed certificates as well.  If anyone would...
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    Energy Efficient ARM Code

    Heres an excellent article in EE Times on writing energy efficient ARM code [https://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1279523](https://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1279523) .Our wolfSSL embedded SSL product is designed with many of these principles in mind, but of course the design goal of energy efficiency takes a back seat to overall security.  In some cases, the goals of...
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    Team yaSSL Salutes the Life and Work of Dennis Ritchie

    As heavy users of the C language and Unix operating environments, well simply note our gratitude for Ritchies work.  There`s any number of articles on the topic of his passing.  One of the best ones is here:  http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2011/10/dennis-ritchie/Wikipedia (Dennis Ritchie): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Ritchie
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    wolfSSL 2.0.0rc3 is Now Available

    The latest release of wolfSSL is now ready for download: http://yassl.com/yaSSL/Download.html .  New features in the embedded SSL release include better autoconf support, allowing easier integration with other projects whether those projects use autoconf or not.  More complete make install and uninstall, using the default system directories.  make test /...
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    TLS 1.0 Cracked

    It has been widely publicized that TLS (any version less than or equal to 1.0), using AES-CBC mode has been recently cracked.  We have received a number of questions and there has been a flurry of activity in the SSL world around this topic.  Hence, we feel compelled to make...
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    wolfSSL supports FreeRTOS

    We recently ported the wolfSSL embedded SSL library to FreeRTOS. FreeRTOS is a real-time operating system for embedded devices which is designed to be small and simple. Currently, it officially supports 27 architectures and is downloaded over 77 thousand times every year.Like wolfSSL, FreeRTOS is portable, open source and royalty...
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