WOLFSSL STM32 SUPPORT

STM32Fxx Standard Peripheral Library Support

Supported cryptographic algorithms accelerated in hardware through the STM32Fxx Standard Peripheral Library include AES (CBC, CTR), DES (ECB, CBC), 3DES, MD5, and SHA1.  For details regarding the STM32 cryptography and hash processors, please see the STM32Fxx Standard Peripheral Library user manual:

http://www.st.com/internet/com/TECHNICAL_RESOURCES/TECHNICAL_LITERATURE/USER_MANUAL/DM00023896.pdf

STM32CubeMX with HAL Support

Supported cryptographic algorithms accelerated in hardware through the STM32CubeMX HAL include RNG, AES, SHA-1, 3DES, and MD5.  For details regarding STM32CubeMX please see the following STMicro webpage:

http://www.st.com/en/development-tools/stm32cubemx.html

Using wolfSSL with the STM32, applications can see substantial speed improvements when using the hardware crypto versus using wolfSSL’s standard software cryptography implementation.  The following benchmarks were gathered from the wolfCrypt benchmark application (located in <wolfssl_root>/wolfcrypt/benchmark/benchmark.c) running on the STM3221G-EVAL board (STM32F2) using the STM32F2 Standard Peripheral Library and FreeRTOS.

Software Crypto: wolfCrypt Benchmark, Normal Big Integer Math Library

AES        1024 kB took 0.822 seconds,   1.22 MB/s
ARC4     1024 KB took 0.219 seconds,   4.57 MB/s
DES        1024 KB took 1.513 seconds,   0.66 MB/s
3DES      1024 KB took 3.986 seconds,   0.25 MB/s

MD5          1024 KB took 0.119 seconds,   8.40 MB/s
SHA          1024 KB took 0.279 seconds,   3.58 MB/s
SHA-256   1024 KB took 0.690 seconds,   1.45 MB/s

RSA 2048 encryption took 111.17 milliseconds, avg over 100 iterations
RSA 2048 decryption took 1204.77 milliseconds, avg over 100 iterations
DH  2048 key generation   467.90 milliseconds, avg over 100 iterations
DH  2048 key agreement   538.94 milliseconds, avg over 100 iterations

STM32F2 Hardware Crypto: wolfCrypt Benchmark, Normal Big Integer Math Library

AES        1024 kB took 0.105 seconds,   9.52 MB/s
ARC4     1024 KB took 0.219 seconds,   4.57 MB/s
DES        1024 KB took 0.125 seconds,   8.00 MB/s
3DES      1024 KB took 0.141 seconds,   7.09 MB/s

MD5           1024 KB took 0.045 seconds,  22.22 MB/s
SHA           1024 KB took 0.047 seconds,  21.28 MB/s
SHA-256   1024 KB took 0.690 seconds,   1.45 MB/s

RSA 2048 encryption took 111.09 milliseconds, avg over 100 iterations
RSA 2048 decryption took 1204.88 milliseconds, avg over 100 iterations
DH  2048 key generation  467.56 milliseconds, avg over 100 iterations
DH  2048 key agreement   542.11 milliseconds, avg over 100 iterations

As the above benchmarks show, the hardware-based algorithms on the STM32 demonstrate significantly faster speeds than that of their software counterparts.

To enable STM32F2 hardware-crypto and RNG support, define STM32F2_CRYPTO and STM32F2_RNG when building wolfSSL.  To see a list of defines used to build wolfSSL on the STM3221G-EVAL board with Keil MDK-ARM, see the WOLFSSL_STM32F2 define in <wolfssl_root>/wolfssl/wolfcrypt/settings.h.

Please contact wolfSSL with any questions about using the wolfSSL lightweight SSL/TLS library with the STM32.

wolfSSL has created STM32 CubeMX example for wolfSSL using System Workbench.  This example can be downloaded from the following link.  Please see the README included in the download for details.

wolfSSL Product Page
STM32 Product Page
STM32F2 Standard Peripheral Library Documentation
STMicro STM32CubeMX