Open Questions

Hardware

  • None of the Pycom boards seem to ship with an RTC or EEPROM. How difficult is to make a board that incorporates these features?

User interface

  • What does the user interface look like?

Protocol

  • What data structure makes the most sense for the address book, balancing usability with memory and program space requirements?
  • How should the address book deal with nets?
  • How should network reliability be handled? The system right now defaults to a UDP-esque model; would making it reliable require too much bandwidth or dwell time?

Security

  • Many of the cryptography functions will require a solid RNG, but none of the platforms provide support for this. How do we provide a useful, secure RNG for these functions?
    • What about sampling from an unconnected analog pin and putting this into SHA-256 to provide some sort of source?