PolarSSL is now a part of ARM

Congratulations!<p>Who knows, maybe a part of the &quot;exciting plans for 2015&quot; is to release PolarSSL under a liberal open source license...

I would have expected Facebook or Google to do this ages ago. Particularly Google, rather than pursuing &#x27;BoringSSL&#x27;. Still, it&#x27;s nice to see new and different flows of investment in to TLS. I hope this is a sign that at least one British company is taking our privacy and security seriously.

Clearly ARM sees an opportunity for synergy with PolarSSL. I&#x27;ve built a few services on top of ARM based SOC and being able to fully utilize on onboard cryptographic coprocessor for file serving applications can be a performance challenge.<p>There are some options [<a href="http://www.altechnative.net/2011/05/22/hardware-accelerated-ssl-on-marvell-kirkwood-arm-using-openssl-on-fedora/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.altechnative.net&#x2F;2011&#x2F;05&#x2F;22&#x2F;hardware-accelerated-...</a>] for getting openssl hardware accelerated on common arm boards, but it could be made much easier to get a performant configuration if PolarSSL and ARM worked together.<p>I hope that this acquisition will pave the way to an encrypted internet of things.

What exactly it means that PolarSSL (a crypto library) is now part of ARM (a CPU architecture) ???

I guess this is part of ARM&#x27;s IoT push.