cipe

[Tom 'spot' Callaway]

On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 14:39, Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote:

> Cipe 1.5.4 has two different crypto algorithms (Blowfish and IDEA). They
> are mutually exclusive in the code. In addition, the two protocol types
> (3 and 4) are mutually exclusive in the code.
> 
> This means, to add it to the Red Hat Linux kernel as is, there would
> need to be 4 directories with virtually identical code, simply to
> account for all 4 possible modules. Headers cannot be shared in current
> state.

Addendum: The cipe code also assumes that the userspace tools/daemon are
built at the same time as the kernel modules. As such, it generates a
"VERSION" string, which the userspace compares against the kernel
module. If they don't match, it bails out.

~spot
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