From: Michael Halcrow <mike@halcrow.us>
Subject: Re: RSA support into kernel?
Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2007 08:36:37 -0500
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On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 09:12:52PM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> So far the only proposed user for RSA in-kernel seems to be module
> signing and I'm staying well away from that debate :)

eCryptfs uses RSA.

Right now it has to defer to a userspace daemon to perform the
operation.

Mike
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