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From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
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On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, Andreas Dilger wrote:

> Some notes:
> 1) having so many encryption algorithms is a huge pain in the ass, and
>    it will never be accepted into the kernel like that.  Pick some
>    "good" encryption algorithms (like those that will be supported as
>    part of IPSec and/or the encrypted loop devices: 3DES, AES, RC5 or
>    whatever) and then there can be some re-use with other parts of the kernel.

You are more trusting than I that these things can't be broken or in the
case of AES were not selected because they could. Your point is good, but
I think the way to do it is to define a crypto module API, such that user
could drop in his/her own, be it custom, something which pops up in a
year, or whatever.

-- 
bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
  CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.

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