The Impending Doom of Expiring Root CAs and Legacy Clients

Re:The Impending Doom of Expiring Root CAs and Legacy Clients by hinkley on Monday June 08, 2020 @02:17PM (#23459148)

With ethernet over HDMI being a thing, I've heard reports of TVs tunneling out through a media box without asking first.

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Re:The Impending Doom of Expiring Root CAs and Legacy Clients by stragies on Monday June 08, 2020 @03:29PM (#23459876)

That would require 2 Devices supporting Ethernet-over-HDMI, and one of needs to have routing/bridging enabled.

I have -up2now- not seen 1 device, where the combination of HW/SW was capable of offering ethernet to the Device OS.

AFAIK, no (mainstream) PC/Embedded/Mobile graphics chip/firmware/driver combination supports this. Please do indicate a counter-example, if you know of one.

I consider that unlikely to change too, since Ethernet is limited to 100Mbit over HDMI. Gigabit (Wifi) ate that lunch.

Outside of "Device-Collections" from e.g. B&O, that might use that comm-channel to have a "guaranteed communication backend" available, I see no real (commercially) interesting reason for implement it.

Having said that, I'd be very happy, if GFX-card/TV vendors started implementing the optional parts of the HDMI spec, like CEC,ARC, and Ethernet. I'd find use for it.

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Re:The Impending Doom of Expiring Root CAs and Legacy Clients by dsl on Monday June 08, 2020 @03:08PM (#23459703)

Ethernet-over-HDMI is so poorly supported in consumer devices that in HDMI 2.1 they dropped in completely and reused the pins for eARC audio.

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