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public key crypto in the kernel
I'd like to enhance the cryptosoft driver to support bignum and public key
operations. This will make it more useful as a reference for testing
applications that use /dev/crypto, and also allow us to rely on the presence
of asymmetric crypto in the kernel for applications such as executable
signing.
Does anyone object? I will likely use the code from LibTomCrypt, which
is public domain -- the code in OpenSSL is just too hairy.
(The astute may note that "public key" support in opencrypto itself is not
entirely fleshed out even for hardware backends -- only modexp and DSA
sign are supported. I'm going to fix that too, and coordinate with the
other opencrypto providers as I do it.)
--
Thor Lancelot Simon
tls%rek.tjls.com@localhost
"The inconsistency is startling, though admittedly, if consistency is to
be abandoned or transcended, there is no problem." - Noam Chomsky
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