On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 09:59:37PM +0000, David Howells wrote: > Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Right now, eCryptfs just delegates its modular exponentiation > > operations to a userspace daemon. If RSA ever finds its way into the > > kernel, I might tweak eCryptfs to use that instead for some of the > > public key operations. > > Am I right in thinking that RSA uses many of the same MPI lib bits > as DSA? I would imagine so. Assuming we aren't having to hassle with key generation (eCryptfs takes care of that in userspace), then RSA is, more or less, a^b mod c (mpi_mulpowm() and friends). Mike - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-crypto" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
