Re: Security computation within Linux kernel

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Wed Apr 11 2007 - 21:19:06 EST


Carlo Florendo wrote:

IIRC, The kernel does some encryption functions, involving TCP, NFS, and IPsec since all these are part of the kernel itself.


Yes, but key management is done in userspace.

-hpa
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