asciilifeform: (who typically succumbs to the temptation of using hw-accelerates, e.g., aes? - folks setting up vpn or otherwise bridging nets with serious traffic. aka delicious targets for usg.)
asciilifeform: or - someone would like to see these put to use.
asciilifeform: better than an entirely fake one, sure.
asciilifeform: this is mildly suggestive of vendor having encouraged this
asciilifeform: last bit re: this gadget: seems like the open source folks were somehow clued in regarding, and dared to put to use, the aes acceleration.
asciilifeform: curiously, it even has a hardware galois field multiplier. to tempt folks using elliptic curves.
asciilifeform: i'd avoid the built-in aes, etc. instructions. if i were hitler and ordering a 'magic packet' back-door for this device, i would almost certainly ask that it spit back recently-used operands for these on the wire.
asciilifeform: (what rng? ring oscillator jitter, with sha1 whitening.)☟︎
asciilifeform: pp. 658-9. in case someone was actually following this thread.
asciilifeform: i mention all of this because, while academic for the lot of us, there are folks who actually need to diddle 1M+ packets/sec. in some intelligent way.
asciilifeform: because, naturally, one would have to read the leaked ds
asciilifeform: interestingly, there is, afaik, no support for any of the spiffy bells & whistles (hardware tcp/ip, queueing, packet inspection, etc.) in any civilized os.
asciilifeform: hactive.googlecode.com/files/CN50XX-HRM-V0.99E.pdf << leaked data sheet for the soc in gadget mentioned earlier. you can't actually get this from the vendor.
asciilifeform reminds readers who may come across this device not to use vendor's turd - a fairly standard linux but with a closed kernel module, apparently
asciilifeform: metal chassis, rs232 port. very unusual in that respect. almost like something made 20 yrs. ago. hence the mention of it here.
asciilifeform: this here gadget is a ~100 usd piece that handily runs, say, a btc node. with good performance.
asciilifeform assumes his isp is the mitm vector of choice, and hence does not regard router as a serious hardened component. but has many problems with reliability and programmability of the usual consumer turdware.
asciilifeform: it has the cpu (really a soc), four drams, and a bunch of passives.
asciilifeform: in the electron microscope sense? nein
asciilifeform: getting fairly good performance on one of these with freebsd 10.
asciilifeform: useful-things-announcement: a fairly civilized router, turns out, is one 'edgerouter lite' - 3 gigabit ports. mips64 processor with fairly good docs. nuke the vendor's turdware and install *bsd of your choice. the interesting thing about this gadget is that the firmware lives on an (internal) removable usb stick. can pull, examine, modify on standard comp, even theoretically install read-only unit.
asciilifeform: 'level up skills' at home, under a blanket.
asciilifeform: 'would open up development to a lot of coders' << why would anyone wish this to happen ?
asciilifeform: not a titanic work of literature, but relevant. fella goes mad on account of getting locked up for a while with naught but a chess book.
asciilifeform confesses that he has never written, or used, an extension for a terminal
asciilifeform: not mentioned for the same reason sky being blue is rarely mentioned - abundantly clear that an atrocity like perl had to offer a mega-win to catch on (and it did genuinely, organically catch on)
asciilifeform: does mircea_popescu have marksmanship standards for the gurlz ?
asciilifeform: 'Her: If violence conquers all, even argument, why are you training me in logic instead of shooting? Me: You gotta be willing and able to stand for what you believe in. If you're not, you might as well be a rabbit. And if you recall I have on numerous occasions indicated that you must meet minimal standards of violence.' << interesting! :
asciilifeform still doesn't grasp the excitement the livestock butchery thing caused
