[Cryptography] "Home router warning: They're riddled with known flaws and run ancient, unpatched Linux"

[Tom Mitchell]

On Sat, Jul 11, 2020 at 8:00 AM Henry Baker <hbaker1 at pipeline.com> wrote:

> At 09:31 PM 7/10/2020, Christian Huitema wrote:
> >Is there a build for the rasp Pi -- or any other hardware -- that is
> specially tuned for this scenario?
>
> Sort of.
>
> There is a build of OpenWRT for the RPi4 ('nightly' -- i.e., it works
> fine, but isn't quite as stable as for the other RPi models

....

> tutorials available for how to make almost any Linux box into a router.
>
> There are 64-bit builds of Linux for the RPi4 which take even better
> advantage of its performance; these also require similar configuration to
> become a router.
>
....

> The RPi4 has a number of USB ports which can be converted into Ethernet
> ports with suitable adapters; make sure your RPi4 USB power supply provides
> enough power (this is not quite as easy as one would like -- you should
> probably *measure* the USB power requirements for each device),


The Pi-zero-w is fun and crazy inexpensive.

Not a router but local services, NTP, DNS, ssh in, even vpn.
Each simple activity can be run in isolation tested then migrated
to another box (should mention Intel NUC).

Backup and redundancy gets important.

It may be turtles all the way down but they do not need to be the same
species.

The Pi is intended to be educational.  In that regard it is a success.

The Pi-4 now with 4 or 8GB of RAM and a USB C power connector is
sufficiently interesting for more.
An Intel NUC has still more gumption.
-- 
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