I am considering RSA as an option for research purposes; though I need
it only for decryption purposes. Any specific reason for running the
daemon in user space?
Gautam
On 7/6/07, Michael Halcrow <mike@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 09:12:52PM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> So far the only proposed user for RSA in-kernel seems to be module
> signing and I'm staying well away from that debate :)
eCryptfs uses RSA.
Right now it has to defer to a userspace daemon to perform the
operation.
Mike
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