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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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    Embedded Web Server for AVR

    • wolfssladmin
    The yaSSL Embedded Web Server for AVR has some optimizations our users might want to hear about:  Assembly code for the AVR and AVR 32 instruction sets in the SSL cryptography. Assembly code for the AVR 32 instruction set speeds up public key operation during the SSL handshake.  Need to...
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    Securing Machine-to-Machine Communication with wolfSSL

    • wolfssladmin
    Machine-to-machine communication takes place between both wired and wireless systems all around the world every day. As stated here, “M2M uses a device (sensor, meter, etc.) to capture an ‘event` (temperature, inventory level, etc.), which is relayed through a network (wireless, wired or hybrid) to an application (software program), that...
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    Assembly-Based Performance Optimizations for ARM in wolfSSL

    • wolfssladmin
    Earlier this week we stated our commitment to ARM by explaining our assembly code optimizations on a number of our math intensive cryptography operations. To give you more information, these optimizations are for Public Key operations with the CTaoCrypt fastmath option. This translates to a speed increase when using RSA,...
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    yaSSL lays plans to secure mbed based racing robots

    • wolfssladmin
    Hi!  As you may know from reading our posts here, Team yaSSL is exhibiting at ARM TechCon this week.  What you may not know is that we’ve been working with ARM’s mbed.org team to facilitate a port of wolfSSL to mbed.  Why?  Because hobbyists need security too!  And it is...
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    The ARM Powered Corvette

    • wolfssladmin
    The yaSSL booth at ARM TechCon is perfectly situated to check out the QNX based/ARM based Corvette on the show floor.  It’s a silver beauty!  See the pictures below. Reminder:  if you’re building a QNX based car computer and need to secure it with small embedded SSL solution, then contact us. ...
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    How to use the CTaoCrypt crypto library in standalone mode

    • wolfssladmin
    Hi!  About 20% of our users are using CTaoCrypt to provide standalone cryptographic functionality, and about 80% of our users have not thought about using it that way.  The purpose of this blog post is to inform users on how to use CTaoCrypt as a standalone library:  1. CTaoCrypt is...
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