Re: in-kernel crypto

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On Fri, 25 Jul 2003, J.A. Magallon wrote:

> Hi all...
>
> Just a couple questions about the crypto routines present in kernel:
>
> - Are they just for in-kernel use, some like encrypted filesystems, or can
> it be used from userspace ?

It's just for the kernel at the moment.

> - It it is usable from userland, has it any advantage over doing it in
> userspace ? IE, for example, can ssh be faster it used the kernel crypto ?

No real point until there is hardware support, then userspace can take
advantage of it.

> - If so, how ? Special library ? syscalls ?

Probably a filesystem.

- James

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James Morris
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