On Nov 18, 2003, at 8:29 PM, Bill Sommerfeld wrote:
i'll admit to a certain lack of familiarity with the /dev/crypto interface, but doing software crypto in the kernel on behalf of userspace makes absolutely no sense unless you're implementing indirect keying with a trusted in-kernel keystore not accessible to userland... And a knob doesn't make sense for that because userland wouldn't have access to the keys in the first place in that case..
In general, I agree. I would rather we not support it at all, but I can see how it could be useful for debugging/trouble-shooting.
-- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej%wasabisystems.com@localhost>