From: "Gautam Singaraju" <gautam.singaraju@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: RSA support into kernel?
Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2007 07:41:18 -0700
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I am considering RSA as an option for research purposes; though I need
it only for decryption purposes. Any specific reason for running the
daemon in user space?

Gautam
On 7/6/07, Michael Halcrow <mike@halcrow.us> wrote:
> 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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