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Re:Ask HN: Oldest piece of hardware a user could access the ... by classichasclass on Thursday January 14, 2021 @03:12AM (#25773564)
Do you mean something that, for example, could access TLS 1.2? I hacked up such a thing that works on a number of my old boxes, including NeXSTEP and A/UX. The oldest system I got it to work on is a Mac IIci running NetBSD without a cache card; it needs about 22 seconds to do a TLS 1.2 transaction with a local server, but it works.

https://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2020/11/fun-with-crypto-ancienne...

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Re:Ask HN: Oldest piece of hardware a user could access the ... by bawolff on Thursday January 14, 2021 @06:30AM (#25775122)
Huh, wonder where its spending all that time and if different ciphers would make a significant difference. I imagine many of the modern ciphers have hand tuned assembly for 64bit computers but probably not for older computers.
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