RSA in kernel

RSA in kernel

[Gang Xu]

Hi,

I am interested in using RSA functions in kernel. I
searched RSA in the archive and read all threads. It
seems that some developers (Tom, Joy, Serge and more?)
were planning to start porting RSA to kernel in June.
Is there a module available now? 

many thanks,

Gang, 




	
		
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Re: RSA in kernel

[Chris Wright]

* Gang Xu (roaming_pig@yahoo.com) wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am interested in using RSA functions in kernel. I
> searched RSA in the archive and read all threads. It
> seems that some developers (Tom, Joy, Serge and more?)
> were planning to start porting RSA to kernel in June.
> Is there a module available now? 

It's been done a few times, but nothing is in mainline.  You'll find
it buried in digsig[1], but it's not a standalone module, and I believe
there's still cryptoapi work needed to support assymetric crypto.

[1] http://disec.sourceforge.net/

thanks
-chris
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Re: RSA in kernel

[James Morris]

On Mon, 6 Dec 2004, Chris Wright wrote:

> It's been done a few times, but nothing is in mainline.  You'll find
> it buried in digsig[1], but it's not a standalone module, and I believe
> there's still cryptoapi work needed to support assymetric crypto.

Last I recall, the IBM folk were investigating whether the crypto API 
would need to change or not (i.e. just use cipher methods).


- James
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James Morris
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RSA in Kernel

[V Bhanu Chandra]

Hi,

I have gone through some threads which have mentioned about people 
starting with a project to implement RSA in the kernel. Could someone 
please tell me the state of the project since we are working on an 
application that would need such a patch.

The particular thread i am referring to is 
http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0406.1/1352.html

If someone is working on it then we would like to contribute

Thanks and Regards,
Bhanu

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V Bhanu Chandra,
Undergraduate Student,
Department of Computer Science & Engg,
IIT Kanpur, India