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Mocana's NanoSSL

Mocana — April 2010

Mocana\'s NanoSSL

NanoSSL is Mocana's super fast, super small SSL/TLS solution specifically designed to speed product development while providing best-in-class device security services for resource-constrained environments

  • NanoSSL is open-standards based, extensible, extremely small footprint, platform-agnostic and includes an optional government-certified FIPS 140-2 level-1- validated crypto core
  • NanoSSL includes a full-featured key generator and certificate management client, and even supports Government Suite B crypto algorithms and the new RFC standard for TLS 1.2
  • Best of all it's surprisingly affordable: your NanoSSL total cost of ownership will usually be substantially less than that of open source
  • SSL and Device Environments
  • SSL/TLS (Secure Sockets Layer/Transport Layer Security) authenticates endpoints and encrypts channels to provide session privacy and security on the Internet
  • SSL operates at transport layer in the OSI stack and provides secured data transport to applications
  • It supports peer negotiation for algorithm selection, public key based exchange of secret session keys and X.509 certificates
  • SSL/TLS is the world's most widely implemented security protocol
  • Typically networking OEMs used SSL to provide secured management access to the devices like switches, routers, access points, DSL modems, etc.
  • But with the Internet of Things, several new types of devices are connected to IP networksmedical equipment, industrial sensors, smart grid devices, camcorders, and many other embedded devices
  • All of these devices need secured management access to transport data securely over the unsecured Internet
  • NanoSSL is the answer
  • NanoSSL provides easy to use APIs for integration with applications like web servers and browsers
  • Its certificate management module allows it to fetch or renew SSL certificates, check the status of SSL certificates using CRLs or to query a Certificate Authority (CA) or certificate chain

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