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
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>>i would like to contribute.
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>>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?
>>