> Marc has told what things that is found in kerneli. Now Freeswan/ipsec > uses Eric Young's libdes, which both has a fast C implementation and > a fast x86 implementation. Unfortunatly it is specially stated in the > library source that the code is not GPL, and cannot be changed to GPL > either. > > <quote> > this code cannot simply be copied and put under another distrubution > license [including the GNU Public License.] > </quote> > > AFAIK, this means that the code cannot simply be put into the crypto- > API without permission. Do you think it's possible to get the > necessary permission to insert the the libdes 3DES implementation into > the kernel. In those cases, its often smart to offer the compiling user the option of linking against it and creating your own library to do it thats slower as well. ./configure --with-lib3des ... they'll have to acquire lib3des on their own. This is done with lots of other large packages. Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/
