From: Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav@gnutls.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC v1.1 1/5] crypto: GnuPG based MPI lib
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 13:38:45 +0200
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On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 6:12 PM, Dmitry Kasatkin
<dmitry.kasatkin@intel.com> wrote:
> On 11/08/11 20:20, Dmitry Kasatkin wrote:
>> From: Dmitry Kasatkin <dmitry.kasatkin@nokia.com>
>>
>> Adds the multi-precision-integer maths library which was originally taken
>> from GnuPG and ported to the kernel by (among others) David Howells.
>> This version is taken from Fedora kernel 2.6.32-71.14.1.el6.
>> This library is used to implemenet RSA digital signature verification
>> used in IMA/EVM integrity protection subsystem.

Was there a particular reason to select the GnuPG mpi lib? Why not
include gmp (the gnupg mpi lib is a very old fork of gmp), or some other
big number library?

regards,
Nikos