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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

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    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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    wolfSSL 1.9.0 Released

    • wolfssladmin
    A new release of wolfSSL, 1.9.0, is now available.  This release adds bug fixes, improved TLSv1.2 through testing and better hash/sig algo ids, –enable-webServer for the yaSSL embedded web server, improper AES key setup detection, user cert verify callback improvements, and more.  More details can be found in the wolfSSL...
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    Answers to Common Questions from RSA - Part 3

    • wolfssladmin
    Welcome to part three 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:Why is there a wolf in the yaSSL logo?How does wolfSSL compare to OpenSSL?Q:  Why is there a wolf in the yaSSL...
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    Symantec’s Mario Ballano blogs about Android Malware, Android.Pjapps

    • wolfssladmin
    See http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/android-threats-getting-steamy.  From the post:  “The aim of Android.Pjapps is to build a botnet controlled by a number of different Command and Control (C&C) servers. Among other things, it is able to install applications, navigate to websites, add bookmarks to your browser, send text messages, and optionally block text message...
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    Answers to Common Questions from RSA - Part 2

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    To continue our series of commonly-asked questions which we were asked at the 2011 RSA conference, we will be answering the following questions:Can you port wolfSSL to my platform?If wolfSSL is open source, then how do you make money?Q:  Can you port wolfSSL to my platform?yaSSL offers a range of...
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    Answers to Common Questions from RSA - Part 1

    • wolfssladmin
    If you’ve been following our blog, you know we are planning on answering some common questions that we were asked during the 2011 RSA Conference.  Today is the first post in this series.  The first questions we will be looking at are:Does wolfSSL have sniffer, also known as SSL Inspection...
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    Creating Secure Web-Based User Interfaces for Embedded Devices

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    While at FOSDEM 2011, we had the opportunity to listen to Arnout Vandecappelle’s presentation titled “Creating secure web based user interfaces for Embedded Devices.” We really enjoyed it, and wanted to share it with our readers. You can read the abstract, taken from mind.be, below:**Abstract: **A web interface is the...
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    wolfSSL+ with NTRU Cipher Suites

    • wolfssladmin
    wolfSSL+ (pronounced plus) is now available. wolfSSL+ includes NTRU public key encryption. NTRU works well in mobile environments because of the reduced bit size needed to provide the same security as other public key systems. NTRU also isn’t vulnerable to quantum attacks. Several new cipher suites utilizing NTRU are available...
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    wolfSSL library available for the mbed cloud compiler

    • wolfssladmin
    For everyone out there prototyping on the cool mbed board (http://mbed.org/), weve recently published our wolfSSL TLS/SSL embedded library to their cloud compiler so that developers can easily add it to their project.  Its available at http://mbed.org/users/toddouska/libraries/wolfSSL/lm43pv .  We also have an example client you can try out at http://mbed.org/users/toddouska/programs/cyassl-client/lm394s...
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