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Re: Importing libraries for the kernel



On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 6:30 AM Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost> wrote:
>
> 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.

Can you clarify the concerns?

  ozaki-r


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