From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759151AbcDAPRI (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Apr 2016 11:17:08 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:54448 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751625AbcDAPRE convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Apr 2016 11:17:04 -0400 Organization: Red Hat UK Ltd. Registered Address: Red Hat UK Ltd, Amberley Place, 107-111 Peascod Street, Windsor, Berkshire, SI4 1TE, United Kingdom. Registered in England and Wales under Company Registration No. 3798903 From: David Howells In-Reply-To: <20160330073417.GA18597@gmail.com> References: <20160330073417.GA18597@gmail.com> To: Kirill Marinushkin Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, keyrings@vger.kernel.org, linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Security: Keys: Added derived keytype MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <30673.1459523822.1@warthog.procyon.org.uk> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2016 16:17:02 +0100 Message-ID: <30674.1459523822@warthog.procyon.org.uk> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Kirill Marinushkin wrote: > kernel space: > derive keys from "trusted" (with possibility to access from user space if proper permissions are set); > user space: > store passwords within keyrings; > randomly generated keys, keys with payload given as hex string. > > What's your opinion on having derived keytype? Ummm... I'm not keen on the name; it doesn't really capture what the key is for. Apart from that, let me have another look through the patch. David