From: Michael Halcrow <mike@halcrow.us>
To: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru, gautam.singaraju@gmail.com,
linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RSA support into kernel?
Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2007 08:36:37 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070706133636.GH23191@halcrow.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1I6ncC-0007e3-00@gondolin.me.apana.org.au>
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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
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-06 13:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-05 22:48 RSA support into kernel? Gautam Singaraju
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 [this message]
2007-07-06 14:41 ` Gautam Singaraju
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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