Tim Riker Jan 9, 1995, 5:42:26 PM to Please see: http://www.xtcn.com/spnkr/pslipsrvr.html For information on a multi-port msdos packet driver based SLIP server. We set up a system for employees to dial into from home for Netscape access. Have tried: Trumpet 2.0 OS/2 Warp Internet Access Windows NT Remote Access No hassles, beats ISPs! (free!) |
ISDN IPX/IP Router
1992128kbps! Oooooo... No modem could do that. Hit a carriage return and a remote drive letter shows up (Novell).
Wrote q921 q931 (D-channel) protocols from scratch and had them homologated with the free help from NYNEX (Framingham) and Northern Telecom (RTP). I have many people to thank for this including a friend that found me a cheap dive/scary space in Boston Chinatown that was across the street from an ISDN-U capable NYNEX office so that I could get a connection. Even ATT Corporate forgave my oops when an ISDN call stayed nailed up for a month.
Supported Novell IPX routing, tcp/ip, channel bonding, ethernet driver under my own real-time multi-threaded O/S (a follow on to the MIT PC/IP source).
Got FCC approvals working with a lab in Epsom NH. Very quiet place.
Extruded aluminum cases directly from plugs of metal from a place in Randolph, MA. PCB assembly in Southboro, MA. Shipping boxes from the back of a trunk in South Boston. Sold thru resellers.
Frame relay version used for my own 56kbps leased line link ($600/mo) and IP class-C block (free back then) to a friendly corporation providing transit. Of course gave friends dialup internet via SPNK'R.
Presented early design and HowTo at InterOp. Lot of similar devices showed up after this...until the DSL and Cable writing on the wall was obvious. It was a fun ride.
NAT1000 and Road-Mail
1997NAT1000
More sharing Internet for the masses: an IPX NAT --> a regular NAT --> a firewall --> one for Windows (Microsoft bought it and called Internet Connection Sharing). Ed Guzovsky and I created Nevod Inc (an old Pushkin tale I am told) to make this all work. misc.For NT/95/98
old DOS
No one but us supported all the multi-player games (eg Starcraft) we reverse-engineered native support for or the full H.323,T.120, etc algorithmic support for Netmeeting. Also added firewall support and patented captive portal (hotspot) support. Started to add patented IPSEC support toward end. Microsoft acquired product by then.
Road-Mail
Email from anywhere and nowhere. Pre-hotmail web email cgi that cleared caches as you went along.
Even handed out t-shirts at trade shows
and PanAm Clipper wrote a nice article
full article: 1 2 3 4
Misc
Nevod Home PageDeveloped and wrote from scratch web based customer support, sales, and other customer communications software and systems as well as backend merchant bank/credit card processing software since no such s/w was available at the time. Dunno why companies feel they must outsource this today. You still need to have an expert on staff to oversee such a contract if you truly care about customers.
Internet Advertizing
1998Who needs a banner ad when I can catch typos and DNS queries. This was the original DNS Redirection patent that so many companies were built on (eg sitefinder, nominum, opendns ...). Last incarnation (w/ Ed G):
GeoIP Database
2001Data fusion of ISP dialup numbers, IP addresses, WHOIS data, domain names into a geo location database.
US Department of State
2003From my perspective this was yet another project and one of the most difficult, educational and satisfying at the same time. The stress almost killed me (like my dad who had also worked there until his death). Openned my eyes to how the world really works and, thankfully, how people are mostly good and well meaning.
Long Range Identification and Tracking (LRIT)
2005Long Range Identification and Tracking (LRIT)
A post-911/DHS request to the International Maritime Organization (IMO) to build a system to track large ships (IMO number registered size). Who (or what country) would you trust to know where your LNG ship was? I'd say no one. So I proposed a PKI style approach. PKI concept too hard for "politics" or "Im just a humble sailor" to understand. Besides, like in most ecosystems, their idea of "trust" is not in the form of cryptographic algorithms. It is more about who you have worked with for many years. So the final result (after I left) was much lower tech. It was very educational and eye opening to learn how sausage is really made. This among other work for State Dept in effort to pay back.
Netwitness
2006Patented document witnessing service.
Them:You never sent that email. I never saw it. You:Yes I did. Here is proof from netwitness.
DNSSEC Root Key Operation
2010Architect, political and technical cat herder, system and facilities to meet systrust/soc3, chose gsa class 5 safes and HSM, wrote and led key ceremonies, designed procedures to include 21 engineers from every part of the world to oversee and build trust in operations. Oh yeah. and wrote software (tar.gz file) to drive HSM and root key generation. Helped a few ccTLD operators do all the above too. After it took, traveled the globe trying to get businesses and governments to take advantage of this global free PKI. DNSSEC status. Lots of press. Some ok and some ridiculous like TV series picking it up and distorting reality. Dont click unless you really want to see. Big files. TV series Elementary and TV series Blacklist.
In the end its all about this (yes the good die young):
and this
.
Hardware Security Modules (HSM)
2018
1U version w/ my HSM and CPU Been running DNSSEC key
management for all my domains for >5 years straight:
Potted w/ gamma and light detectors:
Next revision. ARM w/ crypto accelerators and chip level (not the coil)
tamper circuitry:
After spending so much time studying these devices and how they are made
and certified, I thought I would try my hand at building a few and
participating in that ecosystem (eg, NIST/FIPS,
ICMC Ottawa
).
Resulted in a deep bench of various tamper detection sensors including a low
power gamma ray detector and bit flipping. Support for ed25519 and
some patented (US9306751) features. Maybe give away code and gerber at some point.
SDR
2020
Alternate high-side mixer approach to LO:
Actually been designing various custom microprocessor assisted xceiver
hardware since 2003 with the idea of a long range, low power "1-bit" xciever.
Here is my latest incantation using cheap ARM and stereo (eg, I/Q)
A/D D/A audio chips. Multi threaded O/S and all drivers and interface
software and hardware from scratch. Made the display look like an old
Heathkit GR-54 from youth. Too many spurs in LO
(built si5351a and ad9951 LOs but not quiet enough. even gps disciplined one.)
so still searching for
the holy grail. Yeah. Made the PCB into the front panel. BUD box behind.
Having my own ARM tool chest is good though.
Sometimes its the journey and not the destination.
SMS4IoT
2019
Signals everywhere. So use them to bootstrap-configure IoT devices and/or
provide low rate (e.g., door open/close) communication and/or control.
Tested
patented
method world round. Some working examples of no-config, no-login, secure
devices:
S/MIME fo All
2021
S/MIME has been around forever. Why are we not all sending encrypted email?
Certificate management difficulties and islands of control? Dont we want the
end-to-end promise of the original Internet? If so, I think I can help.
If not, why not just say so? Maybe cyber/corporate "p"oltics
(CAB.vs.IETF.vs.FANGS.vs.legal?) is the problem.
Here are a few global solutions to this.
Here is a free service
for outlook clients
(pat 11671453).
And a more comprehensive global one
here.
My Internet
Since circa 1995
Continuing to do as we were told by Postel and IETF luminaries: keep the Internet distributed. My own DNS, email, web, routers, etc on own IP address blocks and AS numbers.
Next?
Stuff is brewing.
Last updated Aug 2023.
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