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On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 08:23:45AM +0100, David H?rdeman wrote: > On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 12:22:31PM +1100, Herbert Xu wrote: > >David H?rdeman <david@2gen.com> wrote: > >> > >>3) Changes the keyctl syscall to accept six arguments (is it valid to do > >>so?) > >> and adds encryption as one of the supported ops for in-kernel keys. > > > >The asymmetric encryption support should be done inside the crypto/ > >framework rather than as an extension to the key management system. > > It is done inside the crypto/ framework. crypto/dsa.c implements the DSA > signing as a hash crypto algorithm (since a DSA signature is two 160-bit > integers, the result has a fixed size). Right. I mistook the name encrypt to mean generic asymmetric encryption. Now I see that it is simply an interface to the signature algorithm. This is fine by me. However, wouldn't "sign" be a better name for it? Cheers, -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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