From: "Gautam Singaraju" <gautam.singaraju@gmail.com>
To: "Michael Halcrow" <mike@halcrow.us>
Cc: "Herbert Xu" <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
"David Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RSA support into kernel?
Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2007 07:41:18 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f8b2ccd40707060741o82b4d53va3881eae7450366@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070706133636.GH23191@halcrow.us>
I am considering RSA as an option for research purposes; though I need
it only for decryption purposes. Any specific reason for running the
daemon in user space?
Gautam
On 7/6/07, Michael Halcrow <mike@halcrow.us> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 09:12:52PM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> > So far the only proposed user for RSA in-kernel seems to be module
> > signing and I'm staying well away from that debate :)
>
> eCryptfs uses RSA.
>
> Right now it has to defer to a userspace daemon to perform the
> operation.
>
> Mike
> .___________________________________________________________________.
> Michael A. Halcrow
> Security Software Engineer, IBM Linux Technology Center
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Gautam
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-06 14:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-05 22:48 RSA support into kernel? Gautam Singaraju
2007-07-06 0:53 ` Gautam Singaraju
2007-07-06 7:15 ` jimmy bahuleyan
2007-07-06 10:22 ` Heikki Orsila
2007-07-06 10:37 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2007-07-06 11:05 ` David Miller
2007-07-06 12:10 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2007-07-06 13:12 ` Herbert Xu
2007-07-06 13:36 ` Michael Halcrow
2007-07-06 14:41 ` Gautam Singaraju [this message]
2007-07-06 15:41 ` Michael Halcrow
2007-07-06 17:23 ` Gautam Singaraju
2007-07-06 16:01 ` Herbert Xu
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