On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 00:08:35 -0500 Kyle Moffett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mar 07, 2005, at 15:37, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > > I'm pleased to announce asynchronous crypto layer for Linux kernel 2.6. > > It supports following features: > > - multiple asynchronous crypto device queues > > - crypto session routing > > - crypto session binding > > - modular load balancing > > - crypto session batching genetically implemented by design > > - crypto session priority > > - different kinds of crypto operation(RNG, asymmetrical crypto, HMAC > > and > > any other) > > Did you include support for the new key/keyring infrastructure > introduced > a couple versions ago by David Howells? It allows userspace to create > and > manage various sorts of "keys" in kernelspace. If you create and > register > a few keytypes for various symmetric and asymmetric ciphers, you could > then > take advantage of its support for securely passing keys around in and > out > of userspace. As far as I know, it has different destination - for example asynchronous block device, which uses acrypto in one of it's filters, may use it. > Cheers, > Kyle Moffett > > -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- > Version: 3.12 > GCM/CS/IT/U d- s++: a18 C++++>$ UB/L/X/*++++(+)>$ P+++(++++)>$ > L++++(+++) E W++(+) N+++(++) o? K? w--- O? M++ V? PS+() PE+(-) Y+ > PGP+++ t+(+++) 5 X R? tv-(--) b++++(++) DI+ D+ G e->++++$ h!*()>++$ r > !y?(-) > ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ > Evgeniy Polyakov Only failure makes us experts. -- Theo de Raadt - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/