Mr. Clift: Yes, I most affermatively agree with that position. However, I was of the impression that legal barriers (not just in the US, but other countries as well) prevented such a scenario from being effective without a realistic degradation in the ability to import / export the Linus kernel to with such countries having such legal barriers with regard to import / export controls in place. Now if you are saying that instead of having the actual cryptographic code in the kernel, but merely calls to advantage onesself of whatever they had loaded into memory in the way of crytographic code via a loadable module then this is indeed a superior methodology and I would support its implementation most immediately, though I am unfamiliar with the legal aspects of such a scenario or why Linus has not contemplated such a scenario in the past. Perhaps one of the listmembers will be able to offer up some wisdom as to why this solution (as described above) has not yet been considered, or at what point and why it was decided as not being a viable solution. Very Respectfully, Stuart Blake Tener, IT3 (E-4), USNR-R, N3GWG Beverly Hills, California VTU 1904G (Volunteer Training Unit) stuart@bh90210.net west coast: (310)-358-0202 P.O. Box 16043, Beverly Hills, CA 90209-2043 east coast: (215)-338-6005 P.O. Box 45859, Philadelphia, PA 19149-5859 Telecopier: (419)-715-6073 fax to email gateway via www.efax.com (it's free!) JOIN THE US NAVY RESERVE, SERVE YOUR COUNTRY, AND BENEFIT FROM IT ALL. Tuesday, March 05, 2002 9:34 PM -----Original Message----- From: linux-crypto-bounce@nl.linux.org [mailto:linux-crypto-bounce@nl.linux.org] On Behalf Of Justin Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 9:05 PM To: stuart@bh90210.net; 'Jari Ruusu'; 'Newsmail' Cc: linux-crypto@nl.linux.org Subject: Re: journaling file systems On Wednesday 06 March 2002 06:54, IT3 Stuart Blake Tener, USNR-R wrote: > Mr. Ruusu, et al.: > > One has to wonder why the CryptoAPI cannot be made to function > in a manner such that loop-aes does with respect to being more modular. > If CryptoAPI was modular in the manner that loop-aes was, I think its > usage would be much more accepted. If Crypto-API was just a part of the normal linux kernel, wouldn't that make it far easier? Then loop-aes could concentrate on using the Crypto-API hooks, and not have to worry about providing the encryption services too. ??? Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift > > > Very Respectfully, > > Stuart Blake Tener, IT3 (E-4), USNR-R, N3GWG > Beverly Hills, California > VTU 1904G (Volunteer Training Unit) > stuart@bh90210.net > west coast: (310)-358-0202 P.O. Box 16043, Beverly Hills, CA 90209-2043 > east coast: (215)-338-6005 P.O. Box 45859, Philadelphia, PA 19149-5859 - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/ - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/
