We're gathering momentum for slipmux, a transport of #CoAP over serial ports. That specification allows #embedded developers on simple boards that just have a UART to use the same tools with it as for talking to devices across the Internet. This includes security: I guess I just sent the first encrypted request over slipmux ever, and its security setup was unmodified from #ArielOS's CoAP example. Implementation is available in #RiotOS (#C), and WIP for Ariel (#RustLang) and #aiocoap (#Python).