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

Thomas Groman tgrom.automail at nuegia.net

Wed Jun 9 05:14:19 BST 2021

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On Tue, 8 Jun 2021 20:22:40 -0500Andrew 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 forpennies and crypto offload circuits you communicate with than implementthings like rsa or ecc over a SPI bus. You could run gemini on yourcommodore pet probably with a setup like this, which would be useful tohave crypto offload in any IP networking cartridge for a retrocomputer. High end server cards usually have this built in or via theaddition of 'cryptographic accelerators'. It's why we have standardslike AES so we can make hardware implementations of them.

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