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What does this mean to us end users?

What does this mean to us end users?

Posted Oct 29, 2002 22:18 UTC (Tue) by jzhao (guest, #2865)
Parent article: LinusWatch: Crypto API and IPSec merged

Something more than just encrypted file system without loop device? Can anybody knowledgeable give us a hint here?


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What does this mean to us end users?

Posted Oct 30, 2002 16:02 UTC (Wed) by jamesm (guest, #2273) [Link]

This is a general purpose API, initially designed to support IPsec. Possible uses are for existing projects which need crypto (CIFS, freeswan, cipe, the /dev/random driver) and file/filesystem encryption.

Herbert Valerio Riedel is working on porting the existing cryptoloop code to the new API, for example.

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