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Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2007 17:53:11 -0700
From: "Gautam Singaraju" <gautam.singaraju@gmail.com>
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Subject: RSA support into kernel?
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Is there any attempt being made to provide software based RSA
cryptographic support in kernel? I see that Linux supports
Hardware based cryptographic devices (VIA Padlock ACE). How is the
performance of such hardware? How well are these devices supported?
-GS