What is MBEDTLS used for?

[LMI2]

Mbed environment looks interesting, mainly because it supports many interesting peripheral chips. I see that there is a MbedTLS option in CubeMx. What is it, how should it be used. Why should I use it. Main.c looks the same as without the Mbed. PDFs are nice but a few words are enough now.

Edit: Google tells me MbedTLS is for encryption. Not much use for me, I think.

[waclawek.jan]

TLS is the new SSH. It may be used alone, or as transport layer of other protocols built upon it, most prominently HTTPS.

JW

[Piranha]

Not the new SSH, but the new SSL. If we can call a name from year 1999 a new... :)

Mbed - a software platform and operating system (in a broader sense, not only kernel) from ARM.

Mbed TLS - cryptographic library, one of the Mbed platform components.