[Cryptech Core] Next steps and work packages

[Leif Johansson]

4 maj 2014 kl. 17:42 skrev "Randy Bush" <randy at psg.com>:

>>> 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.
>> 
>> Yes, good idea. This really is smack in the middle of the green/blue
>> boundary. This actually implies that we probably will have more than
>> one implementation of the blue/green boundary. One for tightly
>> interconnected FPGAs and one for less tightly (say USB,
>> Ethernet). This can naturally be combined using wrappers but something
>> we need to consider.
> 
> while in stockholm last week, i was talking to linus i think, or maybe
> it was leif, about this.  the way i thought of it was
> 
>  o there is a brutal blue/green api along the lines of which we spoke
>    some weeks back, a fifo implemented as a ring buffer, with elements
>    being tlvs.  this would be in shared memory in some way.


Is protobufs too much baggage for embedded or can we reuse that?

> 
>  o for test setups, we would 'tunnel' with some sort of shim adapters.
>    the blue and green would each be dealing with the same code, but
>    each would be talking to an emulator which tunneled the abstraction
>    to the distant partner's end where it would re-simulate that end of
>    the api.
> 
> too many words.  sorry.
> 
> randy
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