Re: RSA in kernel

From: Chris Wright
Date: Mon Dec 06 2004 - 12:53:56 EST


* Gang Xu (roaming_pig@xxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am interested in using RSA functions in kernel. I
> searched RSA in the archive and read all threads. It
> seems that some developers (Tom, Joy, Serge and more?)
> were planning to start porting RSA to kernel in June.
> Is there a module available now?

It's been done a few times, but nothing is in mainline. You'll find
it buried in digsig[1], but it's not a standalone module, and I believe
there's still cryptoapi work needed to support assymetric crypto.

[1] http://disec.sourceforge.net/

thanks
-chris
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