Re: [gentoo-amd64] Kernel Cryptographic API

[Frank Peters]

On Tue, 14 Sep 2010 05:57:13 -0700 (PDT)
BRM <bm_witness@×××××.com> wrote:

>
> While I am not a kernel coder - that would be my suspicion - that the Crypto API
> is for any kind of cryptography inside the kernel.
> OpenSSL itself is a cryptographic API, and is platform independent, so no, it
> would not use the kernel API.
>

Thanks for all the responses.

I wasn't sure if the Crypto API was purely for use within kernel space or
if user space applications could have access to it in the same manner as with
other kernel system routines.  But I guess that the Crypto API is just for
the use of the kernel.

Frank Peters