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Jon_Hanson
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 Posted: Sat Jan 11, 2003 4:50 pm Post subject: Cryptographic features of the gentoo-sources kernel |
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| For the first time I installed the gentoo-sources version of the kernel on one of my machines. I noticed that it had amny choices for cryptographic code to be installed in the kernel. What is the advantage of this? |
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AndiW
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| Posted: Sat Jan 11, 2003 8:01 pm Post subject: |
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Here is your answer:
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What is the Linux Kernel CryptoAPI?
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The Linux Kernel CryptoAPI provide a framework of ciphers and digests
that can be used to encrypt and decrypt data inside kernel space. The API
is a non-intrusive patch in that it does not modify any of the existing
kernel source code. It can be compiled into the kernel or loaded as a
kernel module for dynamic loading and unloading during runtime.
On a high level the CryptoAPI distribution includes the following:
- an interface for accessing different kinds of cryptographic
functions
- a set of well known cipher and digest functions
- hooks to use CryptoAPI for filesystem encryption
- a set of different block modes for each cipher
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For more information see your kernel documentation at:
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