Re: [PATCH 0/6] MODSIGN: Kernel module signing

[Michael Halcrow]

On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 07:40:57PM +0000, David Howells wrote:
> Hashing, yes; encryption, yes; signature checking: no from what I
> can see.
> 
> It's possible that I can share code with eCryptFS, though at first
> sight that doesn't seem to overlap with what I want to do.

Right now, eCryptfs just delegates its modular exponentiation
operations to a userspace daemon. If RSA ever finds its way into the
kernel, I might tweak eCryptfs to use that instead for some of the
public key operations.

Mike
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