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:
> >David H?rdeman <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>
> >>3) Changes the keyctl syscall to accept six arguments (is it valid to do
> >>so?)
> >> and adds encryption as one of the supported ops for in-kernel keys.
> >
> >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?
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