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

2010-09-06 Thread Herbert Xu
On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 11:37:40AM -0400, Miloslav Trmac wrote: I can see almost no overlap between the two sets of requirements. Probably the only common use case is handling session keys (e.g. keys used in a kerberos ticket), which should be stored in the kernel for the duration of the

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2010-09-06 Thread Jan Chadima
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Re: [PATCH 01/19] User-space API definition

2010-09-06 Thread Miloslav Trmac
- Herbert Xu herb...@gondor.hengli.com.au wrote: On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 11:37:40AM -0400, Miloslav Trmac wrote: I can see almost no overlap between the two sets of requirements. Probably the only common use case is handling session keys (e.g. keys used in a kerberos ticket), which

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

2010-09-06 Thread Kyle Moffett
On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 11:50, Miloslav Trmac m...@redhat.com wrote: - Herbert Xu herb...@gondor.hengli.com.au wrote: On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 11:37:40AM -0400, Miloslav Trmac wrote: I have seriously considered the keyring API, and this is what I came up with - but I'd love to be shown a

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 Miloslav Trmac
- Kyle Moffett k...@moffetthome.net wrote: On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 11:50, Miloslav Trmac m...@redhat.com wrote: - Herbert Xu herb...@gondor.hengli.com.au wrote: On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 11:37:40AM -0400, Miloslav Trmac wrote: I have seriously considered the keyring API, and this is

Re: crypto_xor

2010-09-06 Thread Herbert Xu
Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos n...@gnutls.org wrote: Hello, I was checking the crypto_xor() function and it is for some reason limited to 32 bit integers. Why not make it depend on the architecture by replacing the u32 with unsigned long? That way 64bit machines should perform xor with less

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

2010-09-06 Thread Kyle Moffett
On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 17:11, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos n.mavrogiannopou...@gmail.com wrote: I suppose you mean the reference to the internal representation of the key. This might be valid for few seconds until the required operation is over. This is not really what I would call storage. The

[PATCH]crypto/Kconfig update broken web addresses.

2010-09-06 Thread Justin P. Mattock
Below is a patch to update the broken web addresses, in crypto/* that I could locate. Some are just simple typos that needed to be fixed, and some had a change in location altogether.. let me know if any of them need to be changed and such. Signed-off-by: Justin P. Mattock