Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 15 Jun 2004 19:54:09 -0400 | From | "Serge E. Hallyn" <> | Subject | Re: RSA |
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(repeating a privately posted question for all to respond)
Is a separate generic assymetric crypto API really necessary?
The cryptoapi usage model is to do a setkey before any encrypt or decrypt. The setkey will be done with either a public or private key. So there is no need to have a public_key_alg with separate public_encrypt and private_encrypt functions, as this distinction is implied at the setkey time. So our plan was to just add another crypto_alg for rsa_1024.
If anyone can point out why this is insufficient, then we will certainly reconsider.
thanks, -serge
Quoting James Morris (jmorris@redhat.com): > On Tue, 15 Jun 2004, Joy Latten wrote: > > > Is anyone working on implementing RSA encryption/decryption into the > > kernel's cryptoapi? If not, I was considering starting such a project. > > Not that I know of. Would you be looking at this in terms of a generic > asymmetric crypto API? > > > - James > -- > James Morris > <jmorris@redhat.com> - 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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