Re: [RFC v1.1 1/5] crypto: GnuPG based MPI lib

On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 6:12 PM, Dmitry Kasatkin
[off-list ref] wrote:

On 11/08/11 20:20, Dmitry Kasatkin wrote:

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From: Dmitry Kasatkin <redacted>

Adds the multi-precision-integer maths library which was originally taken
from GnuPG and ported to the kernel by (among others) David Howells.
This version is taken from Fedora kernel 2.6.32-71.14.1.el6.
This library is used to implemenet RSA digital signature verification
used in IMA/EVM integrity protection subsystem.

Was there a particular reason to select the GnuPG mpi lib? Why not
include gmp (the gnupg mpi lib is a very old fork of gmp), or some other
big number library?

regards,
Nikos