Messages in this thread | | | From | David Howells <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 07/21] KEYS: Create a key type that can be used for general cryptographic operations [ver #3] | Date | Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:32:20 +0000 |
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Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> Nice! Basically the 'crypto' key type ties crypto/ with security/keys. > Other than the posted pgp key parser used for verifying kernel module > signatures, I assume another use case could be to expose kernel > cryptography to userspace. As there was a submission > https://lkml.org/lkml/2010/8/20/103 to do just this, there must be > userspace apps that would benefit. This architecture would address a > number of concerns raised with the prior submission. (Refer to > http://lwn.net/Articles/401548/.)
:-)
> You'd probably want to move the 'crypto' key type to its own directory.
Yeah.
I'd also like to see if Dmitry's work can be absorbes into this infrastructure.
David
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