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On Tue, 14 Sep 2010 12:17:14 -0400 |
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Frank Peters <frank.peters@×××××××.net> wrote: |
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> On Tue, 14 Sep 2010 05:57:13 -0700 (PDT) |
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> BRM <bm_witness@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > While I am not a kernel coder - that would be my suspicion - that |
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> > the Crypto API is for any kind of cryptography inside the kernel. |
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> > OpenSSL itself is a cryptographic API, and is platform independent, |
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> > so no, it would not use the kernel API. |
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> Thanks for all the responses. |
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> I wasn't sure if the Crypto API was purely for use within kernel |
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> space or if user space applications could have access to it in the |
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> same manner as with other kernel system routines. But I guess that |
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> the Crypto API is just for the use of the kernel. |
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There is some movement however: http://lwn.net/Articles/401548/. So in |
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the future it might be available for user-space ...we will see... |
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Robert |
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Robert Cernansky |
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E-mail: hslists2@××××××.sk |
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Jabber: hs@××××××.sk |
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