diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index dc6dc552..9ef46b93 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -43,3 +43,6 @@
 [submodule "3rdparty/library_suffix"]
 	path = 3rdparty/library_suffix
 	url = https://github.com/FWGS/library-suffix.git
+[submodule "3rdparty/mbedtls/mbedtls"]
+	path = 3rdparty/mbedtls/mbedtls
+	url = https://github.com/FWGS/mbedtls-releases.git
diff --git a/3rdparty/mbedtls/mbedtls b/3rdparty/mbedtls/mbedtls
new file mode 160000
index 00000000..701bb7cf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/3rdparty/mbedtls/mbedtls
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit 701bb7cfdef4c8860e7fdafcec1e7ec8a05a37a9