[Simh] Transferring data

Johnny Billquist bqt at softjar.se
Fri Apr 22 10:46:37 EDT 2016


On 2016-04-22 16:43, Johnny Eriksson wrote:
> Sampsa Laine <sampsa at mac.com> wrote:
>
>> Actually we had this idea with Steve Davidson where we=E2=80=99d build a
>> crypto-coprocessor in Python on the host OS and somehow hook it up (via
>> say a serial port) to a PDP-11 and have the host OS do all the RSA, AES,
>> SHA, MD5 operations that way and the SSH server on the PDP-11 would just
>> be a shim to implement the SSH protocol.
>>
>> It's quite easily doable in Python since it comes with all the
>> crypto libraries pre-built, Johnny, you interested in something like
>> this for adding SSH to your RSX TCP/IP stack?
>
> Another Johnny answering here.  If what you want is the ability to
> SSH into your emulated machine, you can put something like this
>
>    Match User pdp11
>          X11Forwarding no
>          AllowTcpForwarding no
>          ForceCommand telnet localhost 1173
>
> into your /etc/ssh/sshd_config along with setting up a user with
> that name & running the pdp11 simulator with terminal lines set
> up on port 1173.  Password on the user account optional.

Nice! I hadn't looked into that, but this is a ready to deploy solution 
for anyone wanting ssh to their pdp11. simh or not.

	Johnny


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