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2023-12-09

Native X.509, RSA and HSM Support

By Arnaud Bouchez, 2023-12-09. Open Source › mORMot Framework

Today, almost all computer security relies on asymmetric cryptography and X.509 certificates as file or hardware modules.
And the RSA algorithm is still used to sign the vast majority of those certificates. Even if there are better options (like ECC-256), RSA-2048 seems the actual standard, at least still allowed for a few years.

So we added pure pascal RSA cryptography and X.509 certificates support in mORMot.
Last but not least, we also added Hardware Security Modules support via the PKCS#11 standard.
Until now, we were mostly relying on OpenSSL, but a native embedded solution would be smaller in code size, better for reducing dependencies, and easier to work with (especially for HSM). The main idea is to offer only safe algorithms and methods, so that you can write reliable software, even if you are no cryptographic expert.

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2023-10-31

Pascal In The Race: TFB Challenge Benchmarks

By Arnaud Bouchez, 2023-10-31. Open Source › mORMot Framework

Round 22 of the TechEmpower Frameworks has just finished.
And this time, there was a pascal framework in the race: our little mORMot!

Numbers are quite good, because we are rated #12 among 302 frameworks over 791 runs of several configurations.

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2023-09-08

End Of Live OpenSSL 1.1 vs Slow OpenSSL 3.0

By Arnaud Bouchez, 2023-09-08. Open Source

You may have noticed that the OpenSSL 1.1.1 series will reach End of Life (EOL) next Monday...
Most sensible options are to switch to 3.0 or 3.1 as soon as possible.

mormotSecurity.jpg, Sep 2023

Of course, our mORMot 2 OpenSSL unit runs on 1.1 and 3.x branches, and self-adapt at runtime to the various API incompatibilities existing between each branch.
But we also discovered that switching to OpenSSL 3.0 could led into big performance regressions... so which version do you need to use?

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2023-09-06

Meet at EKON 27

By Arnaud Bouchez, 2023-09-06.

There is still a bit more than one day left for "very early birds" offer for EKON 27 conference in Germany, and meet us for 3 sessions (including a half-day training/introduction to mORMot 2)!

EKON27.png, Sep 2023

Join us the 6-8th of November in Düsseldorf!

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2023-08-24

mORMot 2.1 Released

By Arnaud Bouchez, 2023-08-24. Open Source › mORMot Framework

We are pleased to announce the release of mORMot 2.1.
The download link is available on github.

The mORMot family is growing up.

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2023-07-20

The LUTI and the mORMot

By Arnaud Bouchez, 2023-07-20. Open Source › mORMot Framework

Since its earliest days, our mORMot framework did offer extensive regression tests. In fact, it is fully test-driven, and almost 78 million individual tests are performed to cover all its abilities:

RegressTests.png, Jul 2023

We just integrated those tests to the TranquilIT build farm, and its great LUTI tool. So we have now continuous integration tests over several versions of Windows, Linux, and even Mac!
LUTI is the best mORMot's friends these days.

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2023-05-05

New DNS and (C)LDAP Clients for Delphi and FPC in mORMot 2

By Arnaud Bouchez, 2023-05-05. Open Source › mORMot Framework

DNS and LDAP are the two protocols on which the Internet and the Intranet are built.
Most of the time, you don't have to care about them. But sometimes, you need to access them directly, especially in a corporate environment.

We just introduced in our Open Source mORMot 2 framework two client units to access DNS and LDAP/CLDAP servers.
You can resolve IP addresses and services using DNS, and ask for information about your IT infrastructure using LDAP.

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2023-04-19

New Command Line Parser in mORMot 2

By Arnaud Bouchez, 2023-04-19. Open Source › mORMot Framework

For most projects, we want to be able to pass some custom values when starting it.
The command line is then used to add this additional information.

We have ParamStr and ParamCount global functions, enough to retrieve the information. You may also use FindCmdLineSwitch for something more easy to work with.
The Lazarus RTL offers some additional methods like hasOption or getOptionValue or checkOptions in its TCustomApplication class. Their are better, but not so easy to use, and not available on Delphi.

We just committed a new command line parser to our Open Source mORMot 2 framework, which works on both Delphi and FPC, follows both Windows and POSIX/Linux conventions, and has much more features (like automated generation of the help message), in an innovative and easy workflow.

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