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LinusWatch: Crypto API and IPSec merged

Posted Oct 30, 2002 17:20 UTC (Wed) by cpeterso (subscriber, #305)
Parent article: LinusWatch: Crypto API and IPSec merged

These new Crypto APIs are cool, especially if they support hardware-accelerated encryption. But will these APIs be available from userspace? Or are they only for use within the kernel (like IPSec and encrypted filesystems)?

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Posted Oct 30, 2002 19:53 UTC (Wed) by pj (subscriber, #4506) [Link]

If there's not a userland interface to them, it'd surely be simple to make one... what kind of API should it have, though?

Userland API to Kernel Crypto

Posted Oct 31, 2002 2:18 UTC (Thu) by DarrenMoffat (guest, #7292) [Link]

The two main "Crypto APIs" in user land are PKCS#11 and OpenSSL.
Using PKCS#11 will make it available to NSS and thus Mozilla and all things based on it.

PKCS#11: http://www.rsasecurity.com/rsalabs/pkcs/pkcs-11
OpenSSL: http://www.openssl.org