Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 13 May 2003 00:59:19 +1000 (EST) | From | James Morris <> | Subject | Re: MPPE in kernel? |
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On Mon, 12 May 2003, Frank Cusack wrote:
> What are the chances of getting MPPE (PPP encryption) into the 2.4.21 > and/or 2.5.x kernels? > > For 2.4.21, sha1 and arcfour code needs to be added, so I don't have > too much hope :-) even though the code is trivial to integrate. > > For 2.5.x, just the arcfour code is needed (since sha1 is already there). > I've written a public domain implementation, which I'd be willing to > relicense under GPL (although I don't see the point), but in any case > the algorithm is easy and could be written by anyone.
One issue is that there is no support in the crypto API yet for stream ciphers.
- James -- James Morris <jmorris@intercode.com.au>
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