From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1PQqix-00072B-0B for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 19:20:35 -0500 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=56484 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQqit-00070F-2j for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 19:20:32 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PQqir-0005OJ-2t for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 19:20:30 -0500 Received: from mail-fx0-f48.google.com ([209.85.161.48]:35951) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PQqiq-0005Nv-QA for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 19:20:29 -0500 Received: by fxm2 with SMTP id 2so2926320fxm.35 for ; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 16:20:27 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :x-enigmail-version:content-type; bh=Mtad5V8MlIgFcU+yxpa7qHMWeVgu61+NzHZVcYvIm98=; b=IeIr8g0aGSC73+6fzic7TfgZdVsU3G1zUl1tc9MCdwLfBvO82pT4fOQNpxxjNzHImS EDYeLCFTPp2H64Cyn7rXi3siQnuo+A/OXb9Co6tsYHaHKcngQrtWGq102FcWzqf5gZuj URARnZzHoSjKeFtynaJW+atDWcudC4i/wWI4k= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type; b=AMBN4zPt9bS1avGwzxZoyvuv3wxwncJkLqxVmVIx5aCYaU7Kk0pRQK5ylGJkjtW2QA xVNtCkeeqf8ps2dSArESAzKRzloMChYY/tasmEMtuSSDIz0XiSUwqz+VIdeGZfteKkOE sEaQhroxARE8XA+tKJyFXs8qM8Zuk/J2QmMVc= Received: by 10.223.114.65 with SMTP id d1mr127842faq.36.1291940427629; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 16:20:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from debian.bg45.phnet (gprs37.swisscom-mobile.ch [193.247.250.37]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id y1sm739557fak.39.2010.12.09.16.20.25 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 09 Dec 2010 16:20:26 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4D01723B.2090809@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 01:20:11 +0100 From: =?UTF-8?B?VmxhZGltaXIgJ8+GLWNvZGVyL3BoY29kZXInIFNlcmJpbmVua28=?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.15) Gecko/20101030 Icedove/3.0.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: grub-devel@gnu.org References: <000a01cb97dc$0900d580$9902a8c0@tystent3> In-Reply-To: <000a01cb97dc$0900d580$9902a8c0@tystent3> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigFEE5D09007B842BFA9C2AB2A" X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) Subject: Re: why is crypt package missing dsa, rsa, elgamal, etc? X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GNU GRUB List-Id: The development of GNU GRUB List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 00:20:32 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigFEE5D09007B842BFA9C2AB2A Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 12/09/2010 09:02 PM, Jordan wrote: > > This is my first-ever query in this forum =E2=80=93 please be kind ! > > =20 > > I=E2=80=99ve been poking around in the GRUB2 code lately, and noticed t= hat > part of the libgcrypt package doesn=E2=80=99t 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=E2=80=99t present, such = as MPI > (multiple-precision integers) ? (a side effect is that several source > files are translated and then not used.) > > =20 > 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? > > =20 > > I have an application to verify a DSA signature during the bootloader, > and without it I=E2=80=99ll have to propose a different approach to my = customer. > > =20 > > Thanks, > > Jordan > > =20 > > > _______________________________________________ > Grub-devel mailing list > Grub-devel@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel > =20 --=20 Regards Vladimir '=CF=86-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko --------------enigFEE5D09007B842BFA9C2AB2A Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iF4EAREKAAYFAk0BckAACgkQNak7dOguQgkhqwEAoJ6PHcKLjR2kr40QyhbDxDJ4 5lkXEGAs2hL0+TbZQYEA/291ROT1h44EmGkmEqbMbVE6uTrtYZdSSPPhyb1n9qOS =lkRC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigFEE5D09007B842BFA9C2AB2A--