Transport Layer Security
Important
This library is hosted on the Amazon-FreeRTOS repository which is deprecated. We recommend that you start here when you create a new project. If you already have an existing FreeRTOS project based on the now deprecated Amazon-FreeRTOS repository, see the Amazon-FreeRTOS Github Repository Migration Guide.
The FreeRTOS Transport Layer Security (TLS) interface is a thin, optional wrapper used to abstract
cryptographic implementation details away from the
Secure Sockets
Layer (SSL) interface above it in the protocol stack. The purpose of the TLS interface is
to make the current software crypto library, mbed TLS, easy to replace with an alternative
implementation for TLS protocol negotiation and cryptographic primitives. The TLS interface can be
swapped out without any changes required to the SSL interface. See iot_tls.h in the
FreeRTOS source code repository.
The TLS interface is optional because you can choose to interface directly from SSL into a crypto library. The interface is not used for MCU solutions that include a full-stack offload implementation of TLS and network transport.
For more information about porting the TLS interface, see Porting the TLS Library in the FreeRTOS Porting Guide.