Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 12 May 2003 15:16:29 -0700 | From | Frank Cusack <> | Subject | Re: MPPE in kernel? |
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On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 12:59:19AM +1000, James Morris wrote: > On Mon, 12 May 2003, Frank Cusack wrote: > > > What are the chances of getting MPPE (PPP encryption) into the 2.4.21 > > and/or 2.5.x kernels? > > > > For 2.4.21, sha1 and arcfour code needs to be added, so I don't have > > too much hope :-) even though the code is trivial to integrate. > > > > For 2.5.x, just the arcfour code is needed (since sha1 is already there). > > I've written a public domain implementation, which I'd be willing to > > relicense under GPL (although I don't see the point), but in any case > > the algorithm is easy and could be written by anyone. > > One issue is that there is no support in the crypto API yet for stream > ciphers.
Doesn't need it, AFAICT. The caller keeps the state.
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