Re: RSA [patch #1]

[James Morris]

On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, David Howells wrote:

> 
> > I think the way to manage keyrings is via a filesystem API, which 
> > different asymmetric crypto apps can register with.
> 
> I'm not sure what you're thinking of exactly. Can you elaborate?

Different kernel asymmetric crypto apps (e.g. module signature checker)  
will need to be able to manage independent keyrings, and a common
filesystem API would be useful for this.  e.g. during startup, some init 
script loads keyrings into the kernel via /proc/crypto/keyring/app/addkey


- James
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