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SubjectRe: RSA
(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>
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