GoAhead/DMF Web Server Gets Micro-SSL Support

JimCricket writes "The world's most popular embedded web server has gained something embedded developers have long wished for: support for a small (~50kB) SSL library designed specifically for embedded use. See the press release. The GoAhead WebServer, SSL, and Device Management Framework (from Art & Logic) can now be built into a secure, small-footprint, embedded web application platform."

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Re:From the link

[acaird]

The reason is that there's bugger-all demand for this sort of thing.

I disagree. Yes, there's little demand for the average OSS user, which means it's unlikely that you'll ever see an equivalent OSS SSL library, but the assumption that most embedded devices are LAN only isn't quite accurate, mostly because LANs are fading with the growing number of wireless network devices. The physical security that was provided by CAT-5 needs to be replaced with something, and the safest thing for vendors to do is not to rely on then consumer to cope with the alphabet soup of WEP/SSID/LEAP/RADIUS/whatever, but to impose security on the end user. SSL is probably the single most broadly available means of security - everyone has it, whether he knows it or not. When your next VCR/DVR/stereo/refrigerator has built-in wireless and web access, won't you be happier with SSL?

On another note, the article also mentions that Mocana is also providing an SSH server for embedded devices. Finally. telnet may yet die the death it so deserves.