Re: Linux crypto?

Thomas 'Dent' Mirlacher
2002-05-24T17:57:58Z

On Fri, 24 May 2002, David S. Miller wrote:

> From: "Thomas 'Dent' Mirlacher" <dent@cosy.sbg.ac.at>
> Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 19:42:45 +0200 (MET DST)
>
> what about taking out the libdes stuff, and make it available from
> elsewhere, and hook it into the kernel as a module?
> the main kernel could come with a null crypto implementation - which
> makes no sense to use, but it will allow to meintain the whole system
> without having to worry about the crypto stuff per se (this shouldn't
> change very much in any case)
>
> The US laws cover even things that are meant to allow crypto.

well, but if you take that by the word, is means you cannot export _any_
hooks from the kernel (like the sycall table), because it would enable
someone to place some crytography in there (thinking of read and write
calls)

tm
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