Re: Preliminary Linux Key Infrastructure 0.01-alpha1

From: J. Bruce Fields
Date: Tue Jul 27 2004 - 10:36:40 EST


On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 12:40:57AM -0400, Kyle Moffett wrote:
> On Jul 25, 2004, at 23:21, Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
> >In article <65EFF013-DEAA-11D8-9612-000393ACC76E@xxxxxxx> you wrote:
> >>Preliminary Linux Key Infrastructure 0.01-alpha1:
> >
> >What kind of keys you want to store and what are they used for?
>
> My code is in followup to the LKML discussion here:
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=108700802812286&w=2
>
> The goal is simply to put encryption keys in the kernel so they can be
> used by a variety of systems, AFS, NFSv4, dm-crypt, CryptoAPI, etc.
>
> There was also a bit of a discussion on OpenAFS-devel about it too.

How does this compare with the patches posted by Erik Jacobson and by David
Howells?

--Bruce Fields
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