From: Carlo Florendo <subscribermail@gmail.com>
To: JanuGerman <doublemalam@yahoo.co.uk>
Cc: linuxkernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Security computation within Linux kernel
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 09:10:51 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <461D871B.6070901@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070408143653.97346.qmail@web86905.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>
JanuGerman wrote:
> Hi every one,
>
> I have one question regarding security libraries, already shipped with Linux Kernel. That is, all PKI, RSA libraries, as provided by OpenSSL are already integrated within the linux kernel source code? OR, one have to use OpenSSL seperately in this regard.
IIRC, The kernel does some encryption functions, involving TCP, NFS, and
IPsec since all these are part of the kernel itself.
If you intend to write your own apps that have to use encryption functions,
it would be best to use the relevant encryption libraries, such as OpenSSL.
Thank you very much.
Best Regards,
Carlo
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-12 1:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-08 14:36 Security computation within Linux kernel JanuGerman
2007-04-09 0:12 ` Lee Revell
2007-04-12 1:10 ` Carlo Florendo [this message]
2007-04-12 1:18 ` H. Peter Anvin
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