Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 14:43:07 -0400 (EDT)
From: James Morris <jmorris@redhat.com>
To: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
cc: Jean-Luc Cooke <jlcooke@certainkey.com>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       <mpm@selenic.com>
Subject: Re: [PROPOSAL/PATCH] Fortuna PRNG in /dev/random
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On Fri, 24 Sep 2004, Theodore Ts'o wrote:

> have *any* encryption algorithms in the kernel at all.  As to whether
> or not cryptoapi needs to be mandatory in the kernel, the question is
> aside from /dev/random, do most people need to have crypto in the
> kernel?  If they're not using ipsec, or crypto loop devices, etc.,
> they might not want to have the crypto api in their kernel
> unconditionally.

As far as I know embedded folk do not want the crypto API to be mandatory,
although I think Matt Mackall wanted to try and make something work
(perhaps a subset just for /dev/random use).


- James
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James Morris
<jmorris@redhat.com>


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