* RSA support into kernel?
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@ 2007-07-06 0:53 ` Gautam Singaraju
2007-07-06 7:15 ` jimmy bahuleyan
2007-07-06 10:22 ` Heikki Orsila
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From: Gautam Singaraju @ 2007-07-06 0:53 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-kernel
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
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* Re: RSA support into kernel?
2007-07-06 0:53 ` RSA support into kernel? Gautam Singaraju
@ 2007-07-06 7:15 ` jimmy bahuleyan
2007-07-06 10:22 ` Heikki Orsila
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From: jimmy bahuleyan @ 2007-07-06 7:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Gautam Singaraju; +Cc: linux-kernel
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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* Re: RSA support into kernel?
2007-07-06 0:53 ` RSA support into kernel? Gautam Singaraju
2007-07-06 7:15 ` jimmy bahuleyan
@ 2007-07-06 10:22 ` Heikki Orsila
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From: Heikki Orsila @ 2007-07-06 10:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Gautam Singaraju; +Cc: linux-kernel
On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 05:53:11PM -0700, Gautam Singaraju wrote:
> Is there any attempt being made to provide software based RSA
> cryptographic support in kernel?
I fail to see how it would be useful. RSA is such a slow operation that
doing it in userspace is efficient and safer.
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