From: jimmy bahuleyan <knight.camelot@gmail.com>
To: Gautam Singaraju <gautam.singaraju@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RSA support into kernel?
Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2007 12:45:39 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <468DEC1B.6010301@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f8b2ccd40707051753v7cba58cfw1d3e0df5e4decc6d@mail.gmail.com>
Gautam Singaraju wrote:
> Is there any attempt being made to provide software based RSA
> cryptographic support in kernel? I see that Linux supports
> Hardware based cryptographic devices (VIA Padlock ACE). How is the
> performance of such hardware? How well are these devices supported?
> -GS
i fail to see why the kernel should provide software RSA support? The
hardware support that you're talking about are device drivers for chips,
not a cryptographic interface.
-jb
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-06 7:15 UTC|newest]
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2007-07-06 0:53 ` RSA support into kernel? Gautam Singaraju
2007-07-06 7:15 ` jimmy bahuleyan [this message]
2007-07-06 10:22 ` Heikki Orsila
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