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Apache License 2.0 | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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s2n
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S2n-TLS – A C99 implementation of the TLS/SSL protocol
It seems to support multiple options but requires you pick at least one of them. https://github.com/aws/s2n-tls/blob/main/docs/BUILD.md#build...
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OpenSSL 1.1.1 End of Life
I think GnuTLS is probably the second most popular TLS library, after openssl.
I'll also mentions s2n and rustls-ffi for completeness as C libraries, though the former isn't widely used, and the latter is very experimental still. https://github.com/aws/s2n-tls and https://github.com/rustls/rustls-ffi respectively.
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I want XAES-256-GCM/11
I've seen operating on unauthenticated plaintext enough times to list it as my own pet peeve with AES-GCM. But it's a problem for chunked messages too. A few years ago we released a SCRAM mode that makes very minimal changes to AES-GCM so that it mathematically can't operate on unauthenticated plaintext. https://github.com/aws/s2n-tls/tree/main/scram
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Golang is evil on shitty networks
> The documentation is kind of vague, but apparently you have to re-enable it regularly.[3]
This is correct. And in the end it means more or less that setting the socket option is more of a way of sending an explicit ACK from userspace than a real setting.
It's not great for common use-cases, because making userspace care about ACKs will obviously degrade efficiency (more syscalls).
However it can make sense for some use-cases. E.g. I saw the s2n TLS library using QUICKACK to avoid the TLS handshake being stuck [1]. Maybe also worthwhile to be set in some specific RPC scenarios where the server might not immediately send a response on receiving the request, and where the client could send additional frames (e.g. gRPC client side streaming, or in pipelined HTTP requests if the server would really process those in parallel and not just let them sit in socket buffers).
[1] https://github.com/aws/s2n-tls/blob/46c47a71e637cabc312ce843...
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S2n-QUIC (Rust implementation of QUIC)
It looks like by default s2n-quic uses this TLS implementation, which is not based on the ring crate (though it is written in C)
https://github.com/aws/s2n-tls
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LibreSSL Languishes on Linux
I would be interested in the other SSL implementations:
- https://github.com/awslabs/s2n
- https://boringssl.googlesource.com/boringssl
- https://bearssl.org/
Are these subpar implementations or there are other reasons not to use these?
mbedTLS
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OpenWrt 23.05
It's work in progress: https://github.com/Mbed-TLS/mbedtls/blob/development/docs/ar...
Newer version have okay-ish support, I'd guess the next OpenWRT release will have it again.
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How can I disable the close_notify message?
It's related to this Mbed-TLS issue
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DIY Physical Backed Tokens (EIP-5791) with ESP32 and BLE
i've used the entropy generator from MbedTLS which uses multiple sources of randomness, and seeding it additionally with the chip's mac address and the free heap size at time of creation. it would take a lot to recreate all that "noise" consistently, but i'm open to suggestions on how to make it more secure
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Help libraries won’t work on the IDE for esp32
However on the github page and assuming I found the right source - and this is a HUGE ASSUMPTION - there is a section on porting the library to other platforms.
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redbean: a single-file actually portable web server with Lua, HTTPS and SQLite
Rebean is a single executable written in ANSI C that embeds Lua 5.4, MbedTLS and SQLite. The crazy thing about this is that it is a C binary that runs on six operating systems without any cross compiling thanks to leveraging Justine Tunney's cosmopolitan.
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Install mbedTLS on Linux
it looks like the commands are all built under https://github.com/Mbed-TLS/mbedtls/tree/development/programs and the arch mbedtls package does some extra work to rename them and copy them into /usr/local/bin: https://github.com/archlinux/svntogit-community/blob/packages/mbedtls/trunk/PKGBUILD#L55
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Elliptic Curve Cryptography Explained
If you want to see a real implemention of arbitrary sized integer math, mbedTLS is a great example:
https://github.com/ARMmbed/mbedtls/blob/development/library/...
All of the ECC code in that library relies on this code, which can be accelerated by dedicated hardware.
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C Deep
mbed TLS - Another crypto implementation. Apache-2.0
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WireGuard implementation for LwIP stack
Definitely, FreeRTOS + LwIP + Mbed TLS is a fairly common combo these days, and Mbed TLS has hardware acceleration where possible.
What are some alternatives?
OpenSSL - TLS/SSL and crypto library
LibTomCrypt - LibTomCrypt is a fairly comprehensive, modular and portable cryptographic toolkit that provides developers with a vast array of well known published block ciphers, one-way hash functions, chaining modes, pseudo-random number generators, public key cryptography and a plethora of other routines.
wolfssl - The wolfSSL library is a small, fast, portable implementation of TLS/SSL for embedded devices to the cloud. wolfSSL supports up to TLS 1.3!
LibreSSL - LibreSSL Portable itself. This includes the build scaffold and compatibility layer that builds portable LibreSSL from the OpenBSD source code. Pull requests or patches sent to [email protected] are welcome.
libsodium - A modern, portable, easy to use crypto library.
GnuTLS - GnuTLS
Botan - Cryptography Toolkit
libhydrogen - A lightweight, secure, easy-to-use crypto library suitable for constrained environments.