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A comment on BearSSL – Smaller SSL/TLS. Parent comment
• Security
• The server you speak with requires SSL
Reasons for no general purpose OS:
• Limited power (battery, solar)
• Extreme cost pressures (linux needs about $5 of hardware)
• Security (smaller code to audit)
• Extreme reliability requirements
So anything that ticks a bullet in each category is a candidate.
• Remote sensors
• Radio gateway, say LoRa to an internet server
• A device which keeps a secret for you and provides it to a server on command, perhaps something in a 2FA vein.
• Remotely triggerable actuators (door locks, parking lot lights)
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• Security
• The server you speak with requires SSL
Reasons for no general purpose OS:
• Limited power (battery, solar)
• Extreme cost pressures (linux needs about $5 of hardware)
• Security (smaller code to audit)
• Extreme reliability requirements
So anything that ticks a bullet in each category is a candidate.
• Remote sensors
• Radio gateway, say LoRa to an internet server
• A device which keeps a secret for you and provides it to a server on command, perhaps something in a 2FA vein.
• Remotely triggerable actuators (door locks, parking lot lights)