On Sun, 8 Jul 2001, Michael H. Warfield wrote: > On Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 06:44:43PM +0200, peter k. wrote: > [...] > >> all this mess with crypto is making me go nuts, first internal crypto patch >> doesnt work so i have to use loop AES, then it says "at least 20 bytes > Well, I, for one, would love to know if there is any intention > on fixing the problems in the kerneli stuff. I'm also now avoiding it > and playing with the loop AES package for that reason. the international crypto patch has received a bit of criticism few months ago, so I became a bit unmotivated... ...but if there is enough demand I would work on it again and try to fix some of the bigger show stoppers, but I don't want to replace Alexander Kjeldaas if he's still working on the official international crypto patch, and maybe he has already some unreleased fixes waiting... the plans were, if I remember correctly, to make the crypto api that generic as to allow other kernelspace projects making use of encryption, most prominently network encryption projects, to use the crypto api as a common cipher repository... or to put it in other words, to implement kernel encryption services, maybe even allow support for ciphers implemented in hardware... ... :) -- Herbert Valerio Riedel / Phone: (EUROPE) +43-1-58801-18840 Email: hvr@xxxxxxxxxx / Finger hvr@xxxxxxx for GnuPG Public Key GnuPG Key Fingerprint: 7BB9 2D6C D485 CE64 4748 5F65 4981 E064 883F 4142 Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/
