Re: [PATCH 01/19] User-space API definition

2010-09-06 Thread Kyle Moffett
necessary keyring operations for efficiently performing zero-copy cryptoapi calls using those key types. Cheers, Kyle Moffett -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-crypto in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org

Re: [PATCH 01/19] User-space API definition

2010-09-06 Thread Kyle Moffett
On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 15:13, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos n.mavrogiannopou...@gmail.com wrote: On 09/06/2010 08:00 PM, Kyle Moffett wrote: The kernel keyring service is basically a system-wide data storage service.  /dev/crypto needs a quick way to refer to short-lived, usually process-local

Re: [PATCH 01/19] User-space API definition

2010-09-06 Thread Kyle Moffett
-provided input and output buffers. Again, you'd need new LSM hooks, etc. These are very obviously extensible to other applications. It's getting a bit late here, so I apologize if anything I've written above makes particularly little sense, but hopefully I've gotten the gist across. Cheers, Kyle

Re: [PATCH 01/19] User-space API definition

2010-08-21 Thread Kyle Moffett
used for crypto keys for NFSv4, AFS, etc. Can't you just add a bunch of cryptoapi key types to that API instead? David Howells added to CC, since I believe he wrote most of that code initially. Cheers, Kyle Moffett -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-crypto in the body

Re: Initcall ordering problem (TTY vs modprobe vs MD5) and cryptomgr problem

2010-08-05 Thread Kyle Moffett
like it if there were more intensive in-kernel POST tests that could be enabled by a kernel parameter or something for high-reliability embedded devices. Cheers, Kyle Moffett -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-crypto in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org

Re: [PATCH] Export symbol ksize()

2009-02-13 Thread Kyle Moffett
obfuscation. On the other hand if it *is* performance-significant, it should be redesigned to be able to guarantee that the space is available when it is needed. Cheers, Kyle Moffett -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-crypto in the body of a message to majord