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From: Stephan Mueller <smueller@chronox.de>
To: Elena Petrova <lenaptr@google.com>, herbert@gondor.apana.org.au
Cc: "open list:HARDWARE RANDOM NUMBER GENERATOR CORE" 
	<linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org>,
	Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>,
	Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>,
	"keyrings@vger.kernel.org" <keyrings@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/1] crypto: af_alg - add extra parameters for DRBG interface
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2020 16:59:37 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4708215.a9HWlOh95j@tauon.chronox.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5740551.2l3rmUXbR5@tauon.chronox.de>

Am Donnerstag, 16. Juli 2020, 16:49:52 CEST schrieb Stephan Mueller:

Hi Herbert,

(resent, adding Herbert to the list and fix the keyrings address)

> Am Donnerstag, 16. Juli 2020, 16:41:26 CEST schrieb Elena Petrova:
> 
> Hi Herbert,
> 
> > > > > With these issues, I would assume you are better off creating your
> > > > > own
> > > > > kernel module just like I did that externalizes the crypto API to
> > > > > user
> > > > > space but is only available on your test kernel and will not affect
> > > > > all
> > > > > other users.
> > > > 
> > > > I considered publishing my kernel driver on GitHub, but there appears
> > > > to
> > > > be
> > > > a sufficiently large number of users to justify having this
> > > > functionality
> > > > upstream.
> > > 
> > > So, I should then dust off my AF_ALG KPP and AF_ALG akcipher patches
> > > then?
> > > 
> > > :-D
> > 
> > Sure :)
> 
> Long time ago when I released the patches now found in [1] and [2] they
> where rejected as it was said, the official route to access the RSA/ECDSA
> and the DH/ECDH ciphers is through the keyring.
> 
> Obviously this interface of the keyring is not suitable for testing these
> algorithms. Considering the request that the kernel crypto API ciphers
> should be testable with arbitrary test vectors, would the dusted-off
> patches for AF_ALG KPP and akcipher be accepted?
> 
> Ciao
> Stephan
> 
> [1]
> https://github.com/smuellerDD/libkcapi/tree/master/kernel-patches/4.15-rc3/
> asym
> 
> [2]
> https://github.com/smuellerDD/libkcapi/tree/master/kernel-patches/4.15-rc3/
> kpp


Ciao
Stephan



      reply	other threads:[~2020-07-16 14:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-07-13 16:48 [PATCH 0/1] crypto: af_alg - add extra parameters for DRBG interface Elena Petrova
2020-07-13 16:48 ` [PATCH 1/1] " Elena Petrova
2020-07-13 17:10   ` Eric Biggers
2020-07-16 14:23     ` Elena Petrova
2020-07-16 16:40       ` [PATCH v2] " Elena Petrova
2020-07-20 17:35         ` Stephan Mueller
2020-07-21 12:55           ` Elena Petrova
2020-07-21 13:18             ` Stephan Mueller
2020-07-28 16:16               ` Elena Petrova
2020-07-20 17:42         ` Stephan Müller
2020-07-22 15:59         ` Eric Biggers
2020-07-28 15:51           ` [PATCH v3] " Elena Petrova
2020-07-28 17:36             ` Eric Biggers
2020-07-29 15:45               ` [PATCH v4] " Elena Petrova
2020-07-29 19:26                 ` Stephan Müller
2020-07-31  7:23                 ` Herbert Xu
2020-08-03 14:48                   ` Elena Petrova
2020-08-03 15:10                     ` Stephan Mueller
2020-08-03 15:30                       ` Elena Petrova
2020-08-04  2:18                     ` Herbert Xu
2020-07-13 17:25   ` [PATCH 1/1] " Eric Biggers
2020-07-31  7:26     ` Herbert Xu
2020-08-13 16:00       ` Elena Petrova
2020-08-13 16:01         ` [PATCH v4] " Elena Petrova
2020-08-13 16:04           ` Elena Petrova
2020-08-13 16:08             ` [PATCH v5] " Elena Petrova
2020-08-13 19:32               ` Eric Biggers
2020-08-21  4:24                 ` Herbert Xu
2020-09-08 17:04                   ` [PATCH v6] " Elena Petrova
2020-09-09  4:35                     ` Eric Biggers
2020-09-09 18:29                       ` [PATCH v7] " Elena Petrova
2020-09-09 21:00                         ` Eric Biggers
2020-09-16 11:07                           ` [PATCH v8] " Elena Petrova
2020-09-18  6:43                             ` Herbert Xu
2020-09-18 15:42                               ` [PATCH v9] " Elena Petrova
2020-09-25  8:16                                 ` Herbert Xu
2020-09-08 17:23                   ` [PATCH v5] " Elena Petrova
2020-09-08 17:18                 ` Elena Petrova
2020-07-14  5:17 ` [PATCH 0/1] " Stephan Mueller
2020-07-14 15:23   ` Elena Petrova
2020-07-14 15:34     ` Stephan Mueller
2020-07-16 14:41       ` Elena Petrova
2020-07-16 14:49         ` Stephan Mueller
2020-07-16 14:59           ` Stephan Mueller [this message]

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