On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 6:12 PM, Dmitry Kasatkin <dmitry.kasatkin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 11/08/11 20:20, Dmitry Kasatkin wrote: >> From: Dmitry Kasatkin <dmitry.kasatkin@xxxxxxxxx> >> >> Adds the multi-precision-integer maths library which was originally taken >> from GnuPG and ported to the kernel by (among others) David Howells. >> This version is taken from Fedora kernel 2.6.32-71.14.1.el6. >> This library is used to implemenet RSA digital signature verification >> used in IMA/EVM integrity protection subsystem. Was there a particular reason to select the GnuPG mpi lib? Why not include gmp (the gnupg mpi lib is a very old fork of gmp), or some other big number library? regards, Nikos -- 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
