WOLFSSL FREESCALE NXP SUPPORT
The wolfSSL embedded SSL/TLS library and wolfCrypt embedded crypto engine fully support running on NXP platforms including Kinetis, Coldfire, and i.MX6.
In addition to the portability and memory advantages to using wolfSSL on NXP platforms, wolfSSL supports the mmCAU hardware cryptography module on Kinetis devices, and CAU/SEC on Coldfire platforms. Offloading the cryptography operations into these hardware modules provide both footprint size reduction as well as substantial performance increases.
NXP Kinetis mmCAU Crypto Support
Supported cryptographic algorithms accelerated in hardware through the NXP mmCAU include AES, DES, 3DES, MD5, SHA-1, and SHA-256. For details regarding the mmCAU module, please refer to the NXP CAU and mmCAU software library web page.
The following benchmarks were gathered using the wolfCrypt benchmark application (located in <wolfssl_root>/wolfcrypt/benchmark/benchmark.c) running on a Freescale Kinetis K60-TWR platform.
As the above benchmarks show, the hardware-based algorithms taking advantage of the mmCAU demonstrate significantly faster speeds than that of their software counterparts.
Building wolfSSL with NXP Support
wolfSSL ships with several built-in defines for enabling support for MQX/RTCS/MFS, mmCAU/CAU/SEC, and the hardware random number generators on Kinetis platforms. To compile wolfSSL for your Kinetis or MQX-based project, add defines from the below list to <wolfssl_root>/wolfssl/wolfcrypt/settings.h, or to your list of preprocessor defines in your IDE (CodeWarrior, KDS, etc.).
FREESCALE_MQX - Enables support for Freescale MQX/RTCS/MFS
FREESCALE_MMCAU - Enables and turns on support for mmCAU hardware cryptography
HAVE_COLDFIRE_SEC - Enables and turns on support for Coldfire SEC hardware cryptography
FREESCALE_K70_RNGA - Enable when K70 RNGA hardware random number generator is available
FREESCALE_K53_RNGB - Enable when K53 RNGB hardware random number generator is available
Please contact wolfSSL with any questions about using the wolfSSL lightweight SSL library with NXP platforms or development environments.
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