Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752296Ab0HVKXP (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Aug 2010 06:23:15 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:32315 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752158Ab0HVKXN (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Aug 2010 06:23:13 -0400 Organization: Red Hat UK Ltd. Registered Address: Red Hat UK Ltd, Amberley Place, 107-111 Peascod Street, Windsor, Berkshire, SI4 1TE, United Kingdom. Registered in England and Wales under Company Registration No. 3798903 From: David Howells In-Reply-To: <4C6FE8A5.30309@gnutls.org> References: <4C6FE8A5.30309@gnutls.org> <1282293963-27807-1-git-send-email-mitr@redhat.com> <1282293963-27807-2-git-send-email-mitr@redhat.com> To: Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, Kyle Moffett , =?UTF-8?B?TWlsb3NsYXYgVHJtYcSN?= , Herbert Xu , linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, Neil Horman , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/19] User-space API definition Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2010 11:22:47 +0100 Message-ID: <28995.1282472567@redhat.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 532 Lines: 14 Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos wrote: > It is not that simple. My understanding of the keyring API is that it > allows exporting of the keys to user-space and this crypto API > explicitly prevents that That's simple. Don't provide a read() key type operation, then. David -- 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/