Re: RSA

[kartikey bhatt]

hey i am gonna look at the code right now.
will keep in touch.

"Tom has indicated a few ways to go about this which I will send you."
waiting for details.

Joy Latten <latten@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote
> Great!!
>
> Our current goal is to just add RSA encryption and decryption
> to the kernel. We are interested in porting the bignum/mpi and
> rsa implementations from libtomcrypt, http://www.libtomcrypt.org.
> When I say we, I am referring to myself and my coworker, Serge Hallyn.
> You have probably seen a few notes between Serge and Tom, libtomcrypt's
> author, on lkml about RSA.
>
> Tom has indicated that the mpi will perhaps need some work in
> lower stack usage (mp_extpmod uses a bit), lower heap usage
> where possible, and remove any non-supported opcodes (e.g. integer 
> division).
>
> Tom has indicated a few ways to go about this which I will send you.
>
> Let me know when you get to take a look at the code.
> If you have any questions, please let me know. Thanks!!
>
> Joy
>
>
>
> >I would like to work on coding of algorithms and
> >especially developing mpi_t for kernel.
> >
> >Kartikey
> >
> >
> >>From: Joy Latten <latten@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>To: kartik_me@xxxxxxxxxxx
> >>CC: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, serue@xxxxxxxxxx
> >>Subject: Re: RSA
> >>Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 21:56:10 -0500
> >>
> >>Great!! Thanks!  What are you interested in doing?
> >>
> >>Joy
> >>-------------------------------------------------------------
> >>
> >>
> >>i would like to contribute.
> >>
> >>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.
> >>
> >>James wrote:
> >>
> >>Not that I know of.  Would you be looking at this in terms of a generic
> >>asymmetric crypto API?
> >>

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