From: "Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko" <phcoder@gmail.com>
To: grub-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: why is crypt package missing dsa, rsa, elgamal, etc?
Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 01:20:11 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D01723B.2090809@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000a01cb97dc$0900d580$9902a8c0@tystent3>
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On 12/09/2010 09:02 PM, Jordan wrote:
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> This is my first-ever query in this forum – please be kind !
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> I’ve been poking around in the GRUB2 code lately, and noticed that
> part of the libgcrypt package doesn’t get included in the built
> modules. I see how the Python script translates the standard
> libgcrypt source files into new ones that can compile in the GRUB
> build environment, but I also notice that DSA, RSA, ElGamal, ECC,
> PrimeGen(?) do not actually get compiled. Perhaps this is because
> they rely on some other functionality that isn’t present, such as MPI
> (multiple-precision integers) ? (a side effect is that several source
> files are translated and then not used.)
>
>
>
Just nobody worked on them yet. We needed ciphers and hashes for some
purposes so they were imported. If you need asymetric patches are
welcome to include them.
>
> What would it take to get them working? Has anyone looked at this
> before to size it up?
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>
>
> I have an application to verify a DSA signature during the bootloader,
> and without it I’ll have to propose a different approach to my customer.
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> Thanks,
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> Jordan
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Regards
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
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