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Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2007 13:22:38 +0300
From: Heikki Orsila <shdl@zakalwe.fi>
To: Gautam Singaraju <gautam.singaraju@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: RSA support into kernel?
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On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 05:53:11PM -0700, Gautam Singaraju wrote:
> Is there any attempt being made to provide software based RSA
> cryptographic support in kernel?

I fail to see how it would be useful. RSA is such a slow operation that 
doing it in userspace is efficient and safer.

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