From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tadeusz Struk Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC v7 0/3] crypto: Introduce Public Key Encryption API Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2015 09:06:23 -0700 Message-ID: <55819AFF.3010605@intel.com> References: <20150616173050.1248.21847.stgit@tstruk-mobl1> <20150617091453.GB11190@gondor.apana.org.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, keescook@chromium.org, jwboyer@redhat.com, smueller@chronox.de, richard@nod.at, steved@redhat.com, qat-linux@intel.com, dhowells@redhat.com, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, james.l.morris@oracle.com, jkosina@suse.cz, zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com, davem@davemloft.net, vgoyal@redhat.com To: Herbert Xu Return-path: Received: from mga02.intel.com ([134.134.136.20]:14636 "EHLO mga02.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757258AbbFQQGk (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Jun 2015 12:06:40 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20150617091453.GB11190@gondor.apana.org.au> Sender: linux-crypto-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 06/17/2015 02:14 AM, Herbert Xu wrote: >> This patch set introduces a Public Key Encryption API. >> > What is proposed is a new crypto type called crypto_akcipher_type, >> > plus new struct akcipher_alg and struct crypto_akcipher, together with number >> > of helper functions to register akcipher type algorithms and allocate >> > tfm instances. This is to make it similar to how the existing crypto >> > API works for the ablkcipher, ahash, and aead types. >> > The operations the new interface will allow to provide are: >> > >> > int (*sign)(struct akcipher_request *req); >> > int (*verify)(struct akcipher_request *req); >> > int (*encrypt)(struct akcipher_request *req); >> > int (*decrypt)(struct akcipher_request *req); > All applied with two minor changes. First of all I made AKCIPHER > invisible to the user like the other type config options. I also > added a missing select on ASN1 that broke my build. Thank you very much for all your help with this Herbert