Re: [9fans] dp9ik port

[vic.thacker@fastmail.fm]

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Sincerely,
Vic

On Thu, Sep 30, 2021, at 07:08, Eli Cohen wrote:
> hello all,
> 
> I wanted to check back in about the continuing saga to port a dp9ik
> patch upstream.
> 
> where I believe we left off in that discussion, there was advice to
> make a roadmap, involving some kinds of software development
> techniques I don't understand at all, to be completely honest... I
> have tried to keep after that a bit and try to figure out a roadmap
> based on what I have done before and what it would take to do this.
> 
> before I ever started on this project at all, I had looked into dp9ik
> before to re-implement it in javascript for another project, so I do
> know a little about the login process and how dp9ik works as a
> pre-shared key authenticator for an encrypted connection. (not the
> math behind that though! just ported what was necessary to javascript)
> 
> I started doing the same thing kinda, just back-porting stuff to send
> a patch upstream. it rapidly started becoming as much of a mess as my
> efforts to port to javascript, what was only C to C! I'm not a
> professional here at all...
> 
> I did note it seemed helpful to have both types of plan 9 systems and
> both types of drawterm because of slight differences in the keyboard
> input
> 
> thanks everyone!

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