From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Dec 9 17:10:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from lestat.nas.nasa.gov (lestat.nas.nasa.gov [129.99.33.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D8C01576C; Thu, 9 Dec 1999 17:10:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from thorpej@lestat.nas.nasa.gov) Received: from lestat (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lestat.nas.nasa.gov (8.8.8/8.6.12) with ESMTP id RAA15093; Thu, 9 Dec 1999 17:10:18 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199912100110.RAA15093@lestat.nas.nasa.gov> To: Archie Cobbs Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Crypto in the kernel: where & how? Reply-To: Jason Thorpe From: Jason Thorpe Date: Thu, 09 Dec 1999 17:10:18 -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 9 Dec 1999 17:01:38 -0800 (PST) Archie Cobbs 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message