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LinusWatch: Crypto API and IPSec merged

Posted Oct 30, 2002 19:53 UTC (Wed) by pj (subscriber, #4506)
In reply to: LinusWatch: Crypto API and IPSec merged by cpeterso
Parent article: LinusWatch: Crypto API and IPSec merged

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?

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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