signpost[asciilifeform]: testing send through the butterstick
asciilifeform: signpost: seems to work. what's it do to outgoing packets tho? ( from earlier thrd, seems like it was intended as a filter for incomings ? )
asciilifeform wonders how wot/at is config'd on the fpga stick
asciilifeform predicts that the legendary 'magic nsa packet' 'bug' will be found in not too many yrs, and the pill, at least in so far as private boxen are concerned, is logically this and only this, and anyone not already using pestronic ssh will have only himself to blame
asciilifeform: ( see e.g. & elsewhere )
dulapbot: (trilema) 2017-08-30 asciilifeform: as is 'listen for magic poke-arbitrary-addr packet-indistinguishable-from-icmp-ping', etc
signpost[asciilifeform]: yeah, that's why I'm hitting the gas on this. I figure chicom oss models diddling all our realteks, intels, etc. on a 3090 are imminent.
signpost[asciilifeform]: butterstick is handling 2-way encryption / decryption and hashing
signpost[asciilifeform]: a computer sits behind with the butterstick acting as its nic. there's a small protocol to interact with the butterstick over usb
signpost[asciilifeform]: https://problematic.site/src/v/tempest/patches/tempest_box_usb_backend_signpost.vpatch << beware of claudism
signpost[asciilifeform]: intentionally unsigned for now
signpost[asciilifeform]: will get the fpga stuff uploaded in a bit
asciilifeform: oh hm i was assuming the thing enumerated as a regular usb nic (simply one that only hands off valid red'd pest packets) rather than 'driven stick' by pestron from userland
asciilifeform: ^ in that variant the host machine not even needs to know the thing aint a standard usb nic