From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261582AbULFRwv (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Dec 2004 12:52:51 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261559AbULFRwv (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Dec 2004 12:52:51 -0500 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:59276 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261582AbULFRvr (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Dec 2004 12:51:47 -0500 Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2004 09:51:45 -0800 From: Chris Wright To: Gang Xu Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: RSA in kernel Message-ID: <20041206095145.P14339@build.pdx.osdl.net> References: <20041206165810.43823.qmail@web54705.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20041206165810.43823.qmail@web54705.mail.yahoo.com>; from roaming_pig@yahoo.com on Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 08:58:10AM -0800 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Gang Xu (roaming_pig@yahoo.com) wrote: > Hi, > > I am interested in using RSA functions in kernel. I > searched RSA in the archive and read all threads. It > seems that some developers (Tom, Joy, Serge and more?) > were planning to start porting RSA to kernel in June. > Is there a module available now? It's been done a few times, but nothing is in mainline. You'll find it buried in digsig[1], but it's not a standalone module, and I believe there's still cryptoapi work needed to support assymetric crypto. [1] http://disec.sourceforge.net/ thanks -chris -- Linux Security Modules http://lsm.immunix.org http://lsm.bkbits.net