Ssl, in particular the key exchange, involves very complex math that I expect the 8085 has no chance of being able to do, even if you had the ram for it. Your best bet is offloading the IP communication to a faster processor. On Apr 9, 2016 8:20 AM, "Hiraghm" <[email protected]> wrote:
> I've wanted to use my M100 as a twitter client for a long time. Twitter, > facebook, wikipedia, lots of places on the web require SSL. I've also > wanted to make my DOS desktop computer my main desktop computer for > day-to-day stuff. > So, in my search for SSL for Arachne I came across Lynx for DOS, which > used OpenSSL. OpenSLL is written in Posix complaint C (so it says). > > I imagine it'd be very hard to port to 8085 assembler; but then I've been > wanting to port Small-C to the M100 for a long time, too. I've got the > source code and everything, I just need to find the time. > > The question is... would an M100 be powerful enough to implement SSL in a > timely enough fashion to make the machine useful as a twitter client? I > suppose if OpenSSL can be ported to the M100, a Lynx client could be > written for it, as well as an email client. Maybe an Arachne-like multi-app > web client? > > If I were to get Small-C ported to the M100, does anyone feel they would > be more encouraged to develop stuff for the M100? Is anyone other than me > even interested in trying to make it so they could access things like > twitter from their M100? > >
