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    What comes next after smartphones?

    • wolfssladmin
    As participants in securing the mobile internet tsunami, we’ve been keeping a keen eye on the future security needs of the next generation of devices.  We view it from both project involvement and product management for our embedded SSL and embedded web server products.    This article https://www.eetimes.com/author.asp?section_id=36&doc_id=1265933 at Embedded Internet...
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    Book review on ?C/TCP-IP by Christian Legare

    • wolfssladmin
    We’ve integrated wolfSSL with ?C/TCP-IP and can say it is an excellent implementation well designed for embedded systems.  In fact, we can say that the integration process drove us to make some great improvements to our product.  For example, our next release will not require the standard C library for...
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    Our SSL Programming Tutorial is Up

    • wolfssladmin
    We have recently released an SSL programming tutorial which walks through the process of integrating wolfSSL into a simple application. The wolfSSL embedded SSL library is used, along with a simple echoserver and echoclient. The echoserver and echoclient examples have been taken from the popular book titled Unix Network Programming,...
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    wolfSSL and TomatoUSB

    • wolfssladmin
    Hi!The TomatoUSB community has integrated wolfSSL into the TomatoUSB Firmware as of release 53. wolfSSL is being used in non-VPN editions of the firmware to provide SSL support for httdp and dyndns. They have upgraded to TLS 1.0 from SSL v 2/3 which was previously being used. TomatoUSB is an...
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    yaSSL Annual Report

    • wolfssladmin
    yaSSL made dramatic progress this year on a number of fronts, notably in open source community usage, embedded systems adoption, and technology improvements!  Here’s what we’ve done this year, with an outline of our plans for the year to come in a blog post to follow:
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    Initial Results of wolfSSL on mbed

    • wolfssladmin
    Recently we’ve been working on porting wolfSSL over to mbed (http://mbed.org/). Now that we have things working, we can report some initial results. wolfSSL takes 2.9 kB of RAM (10% of total) and 63 kB of Flash (13%).  That includes our test driver code which is about 3 kB. On...
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    Statistics and Projections on Connected Consumer Devices

    • wolfssladmin
    The average consumer in the US will “own 5-10 web-enabled devices by 2014” according to In-Stat.  See here for details:  http://www.embeddedinternetdesign.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=228300296 (as of 26 March 2018 at 9:20am MDT, this link is broken and has no alternative). By our reckoning, that means about 200 Million devices that need to be...
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    A great article that can act as a primer on extracting data from embedded systems, as well as give some  ideas on securing them in the first place. 

    • wolfssladmin
    From the article:  “During a forensic autopsy an artificial pacemaker was secured for forensic information analysis. An academic hospital was contacted and they had equipment to read the data from this pacemaker via a wireless interface. The extracted information contained around 10 pages of details like name and date of...
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    Initial results in porting wolfSSL to the mbed MCU

    • wolfssladmin
    As previously stated here, wolfSSL is getting ported to the mbed chip.  We’ve done the initial build and the results were pretty good.  wolfSSL takes 2.9 kB of RAM (10% of total) and 63 kB of Flash (13%).  That includes the test driver code which is about 3 kB.  More...
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