[Hardware Question] What is the minamum hardware needed to run gemini

[Thomas Groman]

On Tue, 8 Jun 2021 20:22:40 -0500
Andrew Singleton <singletona082 at gmail.com> wrote:

> While in theory 'snythingbthst can display a terminal's is a good
> gemeni candidate, there is the problem of what it takes to run tls
> encode/decode. So thebwudtion splits between what is a minamum to run
> gemini by itself. And whstbeoukd need an external device to act as
> mediation ksyervrorvenceyption? Example being that wifi to serial
> adaptor for retro hardware, but instead of just wifi, it handling the
> tls and either translating Gemini to gopher, or to a retro client
> that seeks a handshake from the dogkevso it knows not to even bother
> with encryption.
> 
> This is Simi personal curiosity Simi 'worldvwhere the 90s internet
> took a different path as one of the ways the world isn't the same'
> and Gemini fits a lot of my wants list for that project.

there a microcontroller you can buy with hardware crypto builtin for
pennies and crypto offload circuits you communicate with than implement
things like rsa or ecc over a SPI bus. You could run gemini on your
commodore pet probably with a setup like this, which would be useful to
have crypto offload in any IP networking cartridge for a retro
computer. High end server cards usually have this built in or via the
addition of 'cryptographic accelerators'. It's why we have standards
like AES so we can make hardware implementations of them.

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