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Re: Is TLS for the IIgs coming later?

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Hi Stephen,

>> Perhaps we can offload the encryption / decryption to some other
>> mechanism (perhaps UltimateDrive could be used).

> [...] some sort of offload mechanism 
> might well be more practical than doing everything on the GS.

I don't know what the UltimateDrive brings to the table that you desire,
but...

1.

The A2Pico:
* is software-defined hardware
* is open source - both hardware and firmware
* is very DIY friendly due to its through-hole variant without any chips to
be programmed
* is available as completely assembled SMD variant for a pretty affordable
price
* comes with a reusable library that contains the code necessary to
communicate with the A2
* can easily be programmed in C

2.

If you define a "crypto accelerator" software interface based on a
SmartPort character device, then this interface can be implemented both
* internally (i.e. based on A2Pico)
* externally (i.e. based on FujiNet)
in a similar way a "usual" SmartPort block device can be implemented both
internally (i.e. CFFA3000) and externally (i.e. Floppy Emu).

Oliver

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Is TLS for the IIgs coming later? D Finnigan <dog_cow@macgui.com> - 2024-07-23 14:46 +0000
  Re: Is TLS for the IIgs coming later? Stephen Heumann <stephenheumann@gmail.com> - 2024-07-24 14:49 -0500
    Re: Is TLS for the IIgs coming later? D Finnigan <dog_cow@macgui.com> - 2024-07-24 20:13 +0000
    Re: Is TLS for the IIgs coming later? Andrew Roughan <no_email@invalid.invalid> - 2024-07-27 13:49 +0000
      Re: Is TLS for the IIgs coming later? Stephen Heumann <stephenheumann@gmail.com> - 2024-07-27 19:08 -0500
        Re: Is TLS for the IIgs coming later? Oliver Schmidt <ol.sc@web.de> - 2024-07-30 06:38 +0000

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