Show HN: The SC4-HSM, a fully open USB hardware secure module

Re:Show HN: The SC4-HSM, a fully open USB hardware secure mo... by lisper on Friday July 08, 2016 @02:01AM (#12053804)

TinyScheme is indeed very cool, but it's a bit of a parlor trick to run it on the HSM. I don't think you'd actually want to use that in production. But it's awfully neat to run Scheme on a gadget the size of a lipstick case. :-)

Here's the original TinyScheme site:

http://tinyscheme.sourceforge.net/home.html

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Re:Show HN: The SC4-HSM, a fully open USB hardware secure mo... by sillysaurus3 on Friday July 08, 2016 @02:41AM (#12053917)

it's a bit of a parlor trick to run it on the HSM. I don't think you'd actually want to use that in production.

Challenge accepted! I bet I could port Arc to it. Hmm...

It'd work. Eventually.

Thanks for the link. I'm intrigued by the idea of lisp-powered businesses. I wonder if there's a survey of the state of non-Clojure lisps circa 2016? Nothing against Clojure, of course. It powers many businesses. I'm just curious how the rest are faring.

I think I'd like to work somewhere that intentionally uses a less-popular language just because they feel like it. Or that makes Scheme-powered devices the size of a lipstick case.

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Re:Show HN: The SC4-HSM, a fully open USB hardware secure mo... by lisper on Friday July 08, 2016 @02:49AM (#12053943)

> It'd work. Eventually.

I have no doubt you could get it to run. Arc is just a thin layer on top of Scheme. The question is whether or not it's prudent to run any Lisp on a security device. I'm as big a Lisp fan as they come (look at my handle!) and running Lisp on an HSM makes me a little queasy.

> I'm intrigued by the idea of lisp-powered businesses.

My back-end server is using Clozure Common Lisp, and I certainly believe in using Lisp to cross-compile code for the HSM. There are a lot of ways to leverage Lisp besides actually running it on the device itself. But I have a lot of other Lispy tricks up my sleeve. Stay tuned!

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Re:Show HN: The SC4-HSM, a fully open USB hardware secure mo... by sillysaurus3 on Friday July 08, 2016 @03:12AM (#12054000)

Please write about this! It's awesome. Basically everything you're saying. If you could just put all of that into about 9300 words sometime, that'd be great. :)

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Re:Show HN: The SC4-HSM, a fully open USB hardware secure mo... by lisper on Friday July 08, 2016 @03:33AM (#12054065)

OK, watch my blog

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