Re: RSA support into kernel?

From: Heikki Orsila
Date: Fri Jul 06 2007 - 06:23:01 EST


On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 05:53:11PM -0700, Gautam Singaraju wrote:
> Is there any attempt being made to provide software based RSA
> cryptographic support in kernel?

I fail to see how it would be useful. RSA is such a slow operation that
doing it in userspace is efficient and safer.

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