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Re: Importing libraries for the kernel



On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 12:58:21AM +0900, Ryota Ozaki wrote:
> Before that, I want to ask about how to import cryptography
> libraries needed tor the implementation.  The libraries are
> libb2[1] and libsodium[2]: the former is for blake2s and
> the latter is for curve25519 and [x]chacha20-poly1305.

I don't really have a problem with Blake2s, but I have serious concerns
for doing asymmetric cryptography in the kernel. In fact, it is one of
the IMHO very questionable design decisions behind WireGuard and
something I don't want to see repeated in NetBSD.

Joerg


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