Re: RSA [patch #1]
From: James Morris
Date: Tue Jun 22 2004 - 14:52:52 EST
On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, David Howells wrote:
>
> > I think the way to manage keyrings is via a filesystem API, which
> > different asymmetric crypto apps can register with.
>
> I'm not sure what you're thinking of exactly. Can you elaborate?
Different kernel asymmetric crypto apps (e.g. module signature checker)
will need to be able to manage independent keyrings, and a common
filesystem API would be useful for this. e.g. during startup, some init
script loads keyrings into the kernel via /proc/crypto/keyring/app/addkey
- James
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