Cryptography
Cryptographic API
- Enables users to access several forms of encryption to protect their data
- Uses powerful algorithms such as DES, AES and MD5
- Kernel uses Cryptographic API to implement IPSec
- Enables users to create secure (encrypted) file systems
- Loopback device
- Layer between the virtual file system and the existing file system
- Can be used to encrypt and decrypt data transferred between processes and the underlying file system