From: Dmitry Kasatkin Subject: Re: RSA signature verification Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 08:59:56 +0200 Message-ID: <4D8848EC.6070306@nokia.com> References: <4D875AF9.4060302@nokia.com> <20110321140653.GA14174@gondor.apana.org.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org" To: ext Herbert Xu Return-path: Received: from smtp.nokia.com ([147.243.128.24]:53865 "EHLO mgw-da01.nokia.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754414Ab1CVHAI (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Mar 2011 03:00:08 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20110321140653.GA14174@gondor.apana.org.au> Sender: linux-crypto-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi, As I have said in my email that it will be used by IMA/EVM subsystem. See security/integrity subdirectory in Linux kernel... Indeed, use of HW accelerator is also on of the targets... - Dmitry On 21/03/11 16:06, ext Herbert Xu wrote: > On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 04:04:41PM +0200, Dmitry Kasatkin wrote: >> Do you think it make sense to have it as a crypto "algo" >> What kind of API you would have in mind? > So the obvious question is who will use this functionality in > the kernel? If the only use is going to be in user-space, then > the next question is are you doing this for hardware enablement. > > Cheers,