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Distribution: OpenSuse 10.2, Slackware 11, Solaris 10
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Kernel's CryptoAPI
Hi,
I am interested to know, if you can use the Cryptographic API, which is embedded in the kernel in normal programs developed in Linux.
I read in http://www.schneier.com/blowfish.html
That the blowfish encryption algorithm has been added to the to the mainline Linux kernel, starting with v2.5.47.
after that many other ones of been added
look in the kernel source.............there is a directory........documentation......
there is lots of info on the kernel..........including a folder called .......crypto......
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