From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266435AbUG0Pda (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Jul 2004 11:33:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266425AbUG0PdC (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Jul 2004 11:33:02 -0400 Received: from dsl093-002-214.det1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([66.93.2.214]:41183 "EHLO pickle.fieldses.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266409AbUG0Pcx (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Jul 2004 11:32:53 -0400 Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 11:32:50 -0400 To: Kyle Moffett Cc: Bernd Eckenfels , lkml List Subject: Re: Preliminary Linux Key Infrastructure 0.01-alpha1 Message-ID: <20040727153250.GD31236@fieldses.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040523i From: "J. Bruce Fields" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 12:40:57AM -0400, Kyle Moffett wrote: > On Jul 25, 2004, at 23:21, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > >In article <65EFF013-DEAA-11D8-9612-000393ACC76E@mac.com> you wrote: > >>Preliminary Linux Key Infrastructure 0.01-alpha1: > > > >What kind of keys you want to store and what are they used for? > > My code is in followup to the LKML discussion here: > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=108700802812286&w=2 > > The goal is simply to put encryption keys in the kernel so they can be > used by a variety of systems, AFS, NFSv4, dm-crypt, CryptoAPI, etc. > > There was also a bit of a discussion on OpenAFS-devel about it too. How does this compare with the patches posted by Erik Jacobson and by David Howells? --Bruce Fields