From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933930AbXCTPkn (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Mar 2007 11:40:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S933961AbXCTPkn (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Mar 2007 11:40:43 -0400 Received: from mailout17.yourhostingaccount.com ([65.254.253.136]:40422 "EHLO mailout17.yourhostingaccount.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933930AbXCTPkm (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Mar 2007 11:40:42 -0400 Message-ID: <002701c76b06$1a591510$0864a8c0@scs1> From: "Tasos Parisinos" To: "James Morris" Cc: "Francois Romieu" , , References: <45FEB8B7.7020200@sciensis.com> <20070320004001.GA11601@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> <000601c76af9$a0ce3ce0$0864a8c0@scs1> Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND 1/1] crypto API: RSA algorithm patch (kernel version 2.6.20.1) Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 17:40:17 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="ISO-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3028 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3028 X-EN-UserInfo: 6b5ac0c6b5a8f649d336ffa6ba3f3bc4:297516c839f78035fb456ced5af6b435 X-EN-AuthUser: tparisinos@sciensis.com X-EN-OrigIP: 88.218.52.108 X-EN-OrigHost: dsl-88-218-52-108.customers.vivodi.gr Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Ok, from what i read, there are many-many similarities in objective but i think that i take a different aproach in the solution This is a mod for modular exponentiation only, and this is specific and simple, cut-down and (as much as possible) overhead free. I don't use gpg structs and /or other code, don't depend anyhow on userland, don't care about elf formats, or where the signature is, or key management, i leave those up to the others to design this is just modular exponentiation as simple as can be Tasos Parisinos -