Hi All,

I am new here.

With a colleague, I am working on a product which previously used PolarSSL but was later changed to MbedTLS which, in the ST ARM 32F417 implementation, is believed to be less buggy.

It is working ok as far as we have got, but we are finding that as well as needing some 100k more FLASH, it needs nearly 50k of RAM, which on the 32F417 (128k RAM) would normally be OK but due to other required functionality it leaves us just 10k.

The architecture we are using for MbedTLS is a 48k (48k was found to be the smallest that works) static buffer within which TLS runs its own heap. I am aware that in the most generic case one has to have enough for one 16k buffer (plus a bit) for HTTPS, but what concerns me is that there appears to be no way to determine the worst case memory usage, across various usage scenarios.

It would also be great to reduce this 48k to say 30k.

Some of the protocols we know we don't need (e.g. PPP) but within any of them there is the question of which cipher suite needs supporting.

What is the minimum cipher suite required to be able to use MbedTLS as an HTTPS client for use with typical current cloud-based file storage or data logging APIs such as Dropbox, Google Drive, Loggly etc?

And what is the recommended minimum cipher suite required to implement an HTTPS server that would be able to negotiate a session with most current web-browsers?

The goal is to ideally reduce both RAM and code size requirements for use in an embedded device that needs to work both as a general purpose server and client, without requiring support for multiple concurrent sessions.

The other thing is that even the ST port of MbedTLS doesn't appear to make use of ST CPU hardware features such as AES256, DES, etc, which the 32F417 has in hardware. This speeds things up hugely but much more importantly in our case, saves a lot of RAM. For example AES256 can use about 10k if done in software.

Thank you very much in advance for any input on what can be done.

Peter