Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262155AbTELOrG (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 May 2003 10:47:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262161AbTELOrG (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 May 2003 10:47:06 -0400 Received: from blackbird.intercode.com.au ([203.32.101.10]:50949 "EHLO blackbird.intercode.com.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262155AbTELOrF (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 May 2003 10:47:05 -0400 Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 00:59:19 +1000 (EST) From: James Morris To: Frank Cusack cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Subject: Re: MPPE in kernel? In-Reply-To: <20030512045929.C29781@google.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 937 Lines: 27 On Mon, 12 May 2003, Frank Cusack wrote: > What are the chances of getting MPPE (PPP encryption) into the 2.4.21 > and/or 2.5.x kernels? > > For 2.4.21, sha1 and arcfour code needs to be added, so I don't have > too much hope :-) even though the code is trivial to integrate. > > For 2.5.x, just the arcfour code is needed (since sha1 is already there). > I've written a public domain implementation, which I'd be willing to > relicense under GPL (although I don't see the point), but in any case > the algorithm is easy and could be written by anyone. One issue is that there is no support in the crypto API yet for stream ciphers. - James -- James Morris - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/