From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Apr 20 13:42:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from sabre.velocet.net (sabre.velocet.net [198.96.118.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A65A637B746; Thu, 20 Apr 2000 13:42:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dgilbert@office.tor.velocet.net) Received: from office.tor.velocet.net (trooper.velocet.net [216.126.82.226]) by sabre.velocet.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id EAB6F138041; Thu, 20 Apr 2000 16:42:15 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from dgilbert@localhost) by office.tor.velocet.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA35195; Thu, 20 Apr 2000 16:42:15 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from dgilbert) From: David Gilbert MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14591.27558.729855.961543@trooper.velocet.net> Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 16:42:14 -0400 (EDT) To: Mike Bristow Cc: David Gilbert , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org, Archie Cobbs Subject: Re: MD5 usage in the kernel. In-Reply-To: <20000420211317.A10157@lindt.urgle.com> References: <14591.25172.361989.676550@trooper.velocet.net> <20000420211317.A10157@lindt.urgle.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>>> "Mike" == Mike Bristow writes: Mike> hands all the LCP of to userland Mike> Is a similar approach approprate here? Is the MD5ing time Mike> critical, or does it only appear in the moral equivilent of LCP? Could be done, I suppose. It is the "moral" equivalent to LCP. It just seems to be such a simple function that md5 in the kernel is perfect for it. Dave. -- ============================================================================ |David Gilbert, Velocet Communications. | Two things can only be | |Mail: dgilbert@velocet.net | equal if and only if they | |http://www.velocet.net/~dgilbert | are precisely opposite. | =========================================================GLO================ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message