On Thu, 5 Oct 2000, Sandy Harris wrote:
> Will DNS security require similar things, or is all its key validation
> done in user space?
With the usual implementation approach, at least, DNSsec should be
entirely user-space.
> So what does it take to get a library into the kernel that does at least:
>...
> public key primitives (probably signature only)
It is conceivable that one might want public-key encryption as well, and
if RSA is being used, that's a trivial addition.
Henry Spencer
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Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system
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