Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 28 Aug 1999 22:22:27 +0000 | From | Marc Mutz <> | Subject | Re: idea: MAC level compression & crypto |
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Robert Walsh wrote: > > > > why there can not be HOOKS in kernel ? > > > they arent crypto... > > > > Tell that to the US government. It sucks basically. > > When I was working on security systems (back when I lived in Ireland) > we couldn't put hooks in our code either because the French government > would not accept the software if we did. You couldn't even put the > crypto stuff inside a shared library in case someone preloaded > something else... I guess it's not just the US government. > So how do the 'hooks' for XOR and DES encryption in the util-linux package (mount/lo{mount,setup}.c) fit into this picture? Is that not considered a crypto hook?
Marc
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