From: Frank Cusack <fcusack@fcusack.com>
To: James Morris <jmorris@intercode.com.au>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, paulus@samba.org
Subject: Re: MPPE in kernel?
Date: Mon, 12 May 2003 15:16:29 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030512151629.D30310@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Mutt.LNX.4.44.0305130038300.3377-100000@excalibur.intercode.com.au>; from jmorris@intercode.com.au on Tue, May 13, 2003 at 12:59:19AM +1000
On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 12:59:19AM +1000, James Morris wrote:
> On Mon, 12 May 2003, Frank Cusack wrote:
>
> > What are the chances of getting MPPE (PPP encryption) into the 2.4.21
> > and/or 2.5.x kernels?
> >
> > For 2.4.21, sha1 and arcfour code needs to be added, so I don't have
> > too much hope :-) even though the code is trivial to integrate.
> >
> > For 2.5.x, just the arcfour code is needed (since sha1 is already there).
> > I've written a public domain implementation, which I'd be willing to
> > relicense under GPL (although I don't see the point), but in any case
> > the algorithm is easy and could be written by anyone.
>
> One issue is that there is no support in the crypto API yet for stream
> ciphers.
Doesn't need it, AFAICT. The caller keeps the state.
/fc
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-05-12 22:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-05-12 11:59 MPPE in kernel? Frank Cusack
2003-05-12 12:13 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-05-12 12:16 ` Alan Cox
2003-05-12 12:36 ` Paul Mackerras
2003-05-12 13:02 ` Frank Cusack
2003-05-12 13:07 ` Paul Mackerras
2003-05-12 22:13 ` Frank Cusack
2003-05-13 4:38 ` Paul Mackerras
2003-05-12 14:59 ` James Morris
2003-05-12 22:16 ` Frank Cusack [this message]
2003-05-12 15:04 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-05-12 22:23 ` Frank Cusack
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