Re: [CryptoAPI-devel] testing...

[Herbert V. R. <hv...@hv...>]

On Sun, 2002-02-24 at 20:06, David Bryson wrote:
> So kyle and I breifly spoke about the IDEA algorithm being in the API.=20
> Since it is still patented(until 2007 IIRC) we felt it shouldn't be in
> there and should be available seperately as a patch.  Thoughts on this ?
> I haven't had a chance to pour over the sources for a few hours, and get
> to know them, but I plan to soon.
oh yes, that's the other thing I forgot...
I want the distribution to be that modular, that one can build easily
distros without strong ciphers, and since ciphers are self-registering
witht the crypto-api, one can distribute the idea cipher as a
self-contained package...

and then again, there'd be the problem of how to create a patch out of
the standalone distro...

> I'm also looking into how cfs was
> designed for OpenBSD because it would be nice if linux could eloquently
> support encrypted root/swap.
well, encrypted root is possible with linux afaik;
encrypted swap in theory as well over loop, although a more direct
approach would be more elegant (there's some paper about encrypting VM
at the openbsd site)

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