From: James Morris <jmorris@intercode.com.au>
To: "J.A. Magallon" <jamagallon@able.es>
Cc: Lista Linux-Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: in-kernel crypto
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 11:06:59 +1000 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Mutt.LNX.4.44.0307251105500.14288-100000@excalibur.intercode.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030724225919.GE12002@werewolf.able.es>
On Fri, 25 Jul 2003, J.A. Magallon wrote:
> Hi all...
>
> Just a couple questions about the crypto routines present in kernel:
>
> - Are they just for in-kernel use, some like encrypted filesystems, or can
> it be used from userspace ?
It's just for the kernel at the moment.
> - It it is usable from userland, has it any advantage over doing it in
> userspace ? IE, for example, can ssh be faster it used the kernel crypto ?
No real point until there is hardware support, then userspace can take
advantage of it.
> - If so, how ? Special library ? syscalls ?
Probably a filesystem.
- James
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James Morris
<jmorris@intercode.com.au>
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2003-07-24 22:59 in-kernel crypto J.A. Magallon
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