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    More news on the Mobile Internet Tsunami - Plus thoughts on how the Tsunami drives some less visible markets

    This article from Embedded Internet Design https://www.eetimes.com/author.asp?section_id=36&doc_id=1265936 gives excellent coverage on the recent and upcoming technologies in the Mobile Internet Tsunami.  We’d like to extrapolate from the article and think about some of the less visible, less glamorous segments of the market that will change dramatically due to the innovation...
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    A Comparison of TLS 1.1 and TLS 1.2

    As stated in the TLS 1.1 and 1.2 protocol definitions (RFC 4346, RFC 5246), “The primary goal of the TLS protocol is to provide privacy and data integrity between two communicating applications.” TLS 1.2 is an improvement to the TLS 1.1 standard, but how exactly do they differ? What was...
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    What comes next after smartphones?

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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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