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The 2.5 kernel gets cryptoThe 2.5 kernel gets cryptoPosted Nov 1, 2002 19:31 UTC (Fri) by leandro (guest, #1460)Parent article: The 2.5 kernel gets crypto
> people have asked if this API would be made available to user space. It would not be hard to write a system call or pseudo-device which would export this functionality, but it is hard to imagine why that would be useful. It would be better just to run the crypto algorithms in user space directly Simplicity. User space would be duplicate code with the one in the kernel. If people could use the code in the kernel, there would be less code to audit and optimize. There could be a penalty for context switching, but this could be an acceptable tradeoff.
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