On Dec 17, 2020, at 6:35 PM, Joseph Touch < touch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: What I want to avoid is breaking the potential for IoT devices to use these protocols simply because they can’t implement the approaches described here.
Hardware RNGs are pretty common in embedded devices nowadays.
In Raspberry Pi, yes. PICs and Arduinos, no. Other IoTs, YMMV.
I don’t think this is actually a practical problem, although I am curious to know if you know of new hardware for which it would be a problem. I will admit that ancient hardware might have trouble, but it probably won’t be updated, given the state of the art at present, so I don’t think such a device poses a serious problem.
What you add as a requirement ends up excluding as a platform. That’s the antithesis of Internet design.
The point is that these are tradeoffs of *implementation*, and should not be described as protocol deficiencies.
Joe |
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