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    Support for System Certificate Store

    • marcos
    In our recent wolfSSL v5.5.2 (Oct 28, 2022) release we added support for loading the system trusted certificates on several platforms. This makes it easier to leverage the operating system’s built-in trust mechanism for connecting to websites.
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    Espressif and wolfSSL at Embedded World

    • kajal
    Embedded World Nuremberg is this month! We’ll be there talking about security, encryption and everything in between. Stop by and say hello! We’ll be giving away plenty of awesome wolfSSL swag and we’d love to hear about your project. One of the platforms we fully support is of course the...
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    wolfSSH Coming Attractions: Algorithm Updates

    • kajal
    It’s been a while since wolfSSH had any new algorithms. I think it is time we had more. wolfCrypt supports a few algorithms wolfSSH doesn’t take advantage of. For encryption and message authentication, wolfCrypt has Poly1305 and CHACHA20 available. There is not a published RFC for using “poly-chacha” with the...
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    wolfSSH Coming Attractions: Privilege Separation

    • kajal
    Bet you didn’t know that wolfSSH has its own stand-alone server application for use on POSIX systems, wolfSSHd. It’ll load OpenSSH style configuration files and will look up users on the local system. It also uses wolfSSH’s built in SFTP service. It doesn’t have privilege separation. In 2023 we are...
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    What are the Advantages of wolfTPM?

    • kajal
    At wolfSSL, we have been developing a TPM stack with customers for many years called wolfTPM, a portable, open-source TPM 2.0 stack with backward API compatibility, designed for embedded use. It is highly portable, and has native support for Linux and Windows. RTOS and bare metal environments can take advantage...
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    Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Moe…

    • kajal
    Do you have a favorite crypto algorithm? …or maybe just one that is important to you?  Hash Functions: **SHA2, SHA-3, RIPEMD-160, Poly1305, Blake2b, Blake2s, SipHash **Block, Stream, and Authenticated Ciphers: **AES (CBC, CTR, OFB, XTS, GCM, CCM, GMAC, CMAC), Camellia, ChaCha20 and XChaCha20 **Public Key Algorithms: **DH, ECDH, ECDSA, RSA,...
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