linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 01/19] User-space API definition

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Date:	Sun, 22 Aug 2010 11:22:47 +0100
From:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:	Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav@...tls.org>
Cc:	dhowells@...hat.com, Kyle Moffett <kyle@...fetthome.net>,
	Miloslav Trmač <mitr@...hat.com>,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.hengli.com.au>,
	linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org, Neil Horman <nhorman@...hat.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/19] User-space API definition

Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav@...tls.org> wrote:

> It is not that simple. My understanding of the keyring API is that it
> allows exporting of the keys to user-space and this crypto API
> explicitly prevents that

That's simple.  Don't provide a read() key type operation, then.

David
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