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Date:      Thu, 09 Dec 1999 17:10:18 -0800
From:      Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
To:        Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Crypto in the kernel: where & how? 
Message-ID:  <199912100110.RAA15093@lestat.nas.nasa.gov>

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On Thu, 9 Dec 1999 17:01:38 -0800 (PST) 
 Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com> wrote:

 > What is the plan (if any) for including crypto stuff in the kernel?
 > As time goes on this will be more and more needed, eg. for IPSec
 > and other VPN applications.

At NetBSD, we already solved this problem with some simple changes to
our config(8).

Also, we put e.g. md5 and sha1 in libkern (the kernel's `libc'), since
they're in libc for userland.

        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>



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