[Cryptech Core] Next steps and work packages

[Randy Bush]

> Novena development board pipe clean
> -----------------------------------
> Work with Bunnie & Co to get a combined HW + SW chain worked out,
> tested and documented. Basically take either a single core or coretest
> + a couple of hw cores and build them for the Xilinx FPGA on the
> Novena board. Then write SW (C and scripts) needed to download the
> FPGA configuration onto the FPGA on the Novena board, talk through the
> design and run some hashing operations. I assume there will be a lib,
> drivers (that I think already has been developed), a test application
> and documentation.
> 
> This work should also coordinate, be part of with Blue/Green API
> discussions and development

i hope bunnie, sobs, and crew have pieces we can steal.  i will ask.

my guess is rob and selkirk can help you and use this as an exercise
in getting selkirk's feet wet (excuse the idiom but i would guess it
crosses cultures) and rob dealing with the first bit of tool chain.

we have novena boards on net, i believe.  three here in sunet and mine,
which is behind a wrt border router through which i can easily punch an
ssh hole.

> Blue/Green and Green/Yellow APIs
> --------------------------------
> Start looking at what applications on yellow layer and above will need
> in terms of data structures and protocols/commands and see what low
> level (blue/green) commands and data exchanges are needed in order to
> provide good, efficient support for the upper layers. Looking at good
> examples for other HSMs might be a good thing too.

this smells like jakob and rob, who i know play in that space.  perhaps
others as well.

randy