How to Prevent the next Heartbleed

An interesting review of some of the approaches that didn't prevent the OpenSSL heartbeat bug (either because they weren't effective or because they weren't applied).

to buffer-overflow checking openssl security static-analysis testing ... on 02 May 2014

Welcome — Botan

C++ crypto library, with yet another TLS implementation.

to c++ cryptography library security software tls ... on 28 April 2014

miTLS - Home

A formally verified implementation of TLS. (Being written in F# means it's a bit impractical to use as a library, though...)

to cryptography formal-methods security tls verification ... on 28 April 2014

BetterCrypto⋅org

Practical recommendations for TLS settings.

to cryptography security ssl tls ... on 28 April 2014

Cryptography Coding Standard

Patterns for secure cryptographic software (e.g. same comparisons).

to cryptography patterns programming safety security ... on 27 April 2014

Diffie Hellman and TLS with nonsense parameters - Hanno's blog

Apparently quite a lot of TLS implementations will happily accept 15 as a prime for DH key exchange. Presumably even if they were checking you could rely on the probabilistic test too...

to cryptography dh prime security ssl testing tls ... on 16 April 2014

Embedded in Academia : A New Development for Coverity and Heartbleed

What Coverity is doing to detect the Heartbleed problem (in short: treating n2hs-style functions as generating tainted results).

to coverity security ssl static-analysis tls ... on 14 April 2014

Using Frankencerts for Automated Adversarial Testing of Certificate Validation in SSL/TLS Implementations

Generating randomly-varied certificates and comparing how different implementations respond to them.

to ca certificate papers security ssl testing tls ... on 13 April 2014

ImperialViolet - Apple's SSL/TLS bug

The famous copy-and-paste error.

to ag0700 goto security ssl tls ... on 25 March 2014

jedisct1/libsodium · GitHub

An autoconf-ised version of the NaCl cryptography library. Looks worth playing with!

to api autoconf crypto djb nacl network security software ... on 17 January 2014

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