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Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2007 13:22:38 +0300 From: Heikki Orsila <shdl@...alwe.fi> To: Gautam Singaraju <gautam.singaraju@...il.com> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: RSA support into kernel? 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. -- Heikki Orsila Barbie's law: heikki.orsila@....fi "Math is hard, let's go shopping!" http://www.iki.fi/shd - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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