On Tue, 14 Sep 2010 12:17:14 -0400 Frank Peters <frank.pet...@comcast.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Sep 2010 05:57:13 -0700 (PDT) > BRM <bm_witn...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > > > While I am not a kernel coder - that would be my suspicion - that > > the Crypto API is for any kind of cryptography inside the kernel. > > OpenSSL itself is a cryptographic API, and is platform independent, > > so no, it would not use the kernel API. > > Thanks for all the responses. > > I wasn't sure if the Crypto API was purely for use within kernel > space or if user space applications could have access to it in the > same manner as with other kernel system routines. But I guess that > the Crypto API is just for the use of the kernel. There is some movement however: http://lwn.net/Articles/401548/. So in the future it might be available for user-space ...we will see... Robert -- Robert Cernansky E-mail: hslis...@zoznam.sk Jabber: h...@jabber.sk
