From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/19] User-space API definition
Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2010 11:22:47 +0100
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Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav@gnutls.org> 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