On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 12:59:19AM +1000, James Morris wrote:
> On Mon, 12 May 2003, Frank Cusack wrote:
>
> > What are the chances of getting MPPE (PPP encryption) into the 2.4.21
> > and/or 2.5.x kernels?
> >
> > For 2.4.21, sha1 and arcfour code needs to be added, so I don't have
> > too much hope :-) even though the code is trivial to integrate.
> >
> > For 2.5.x, just the arcfour code is needed (since sha1 is already there).
> > I've written a public domain implementation, which I'd be willing to
> > relicense under GPL (although I don't see the point), but in any case
> > the algorithm is easy and could be written by anyone.
>
> One issue is that there is no support in the crypto API yet for stream
> ciphers.
Doesn't need it, AFAICT. The caller keeps the state.
/fc
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