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SubjectRe: [PATCH 00/04] Add DSA key type
On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 11:28:56PM +1100, Herbert Xu wrote:
>On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 08:23:45AM +0100, David H?rdeman wrote:
>>On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 12:22:31PM +1100, Herbert Xu wrote:
>>>The asymmetric encryption support should be done inside the crypto/
>>>framework rather than as an extension to the key management system.
>>
>> It is done inside the crypto/ framework. crypto/dsa.c implements the DSA
>> signing as a hash crypto algorithm (since a DSA signature is two 160-bit
>> integers, the result has a fixed size).
>
>Right. I mistook the name encrypt to mean generic asymmetric encryption.
>Now I see that it is simply an interface to the signature algorithm.
>This is fine by me. However, wouldn't "sign" be a better name for it?
>

I don't know, the function which is performed upon the data is
keytype-specific (i.e. with the dsa key the data is signed, with another
key type it might be encrypted, etc). So perhaps the operation should be
given a more generic name such as "crypto".

Re,
David
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