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* crypto: rsa - Do not gratuitously drop leading zeroes
@ 2016-06-22 10:14 Herbert Xu
  2016-06-22 10:16 ` [PATCH 1/8] crypto: testmgr - Allow leading zeros in RSA Herbert Xu
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From: Herbert Xu @ 2016-06-22 10:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Andrzej Zaborowski, Tadeusz Struk, Linux Crypto Mailing List
  Cc: Tudor Ambarus, Stephan Mueller

This was prompted by the caam RSA submission where a lot of work
was done just to strip the RSA output of leading zeroes.  This is
in fact completely pointless because the only user of RSA in the
kernel then promptly puts them back.

This patch series resolves this madness by simply leaving any
leading zeroes in place.  Note that we're not requiring authors
to add leading zeroes, even though that is encouraged if it is
easy to do.  In practice you'd only run into this every 2^32 or
2^64 operations so please don't overdo it.

I've also taken the opportunity to cleanup the pkcs1pad code.

Cheers,
-- 
Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/
PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt

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2016-06-22 10:14 crypto: rsa - Do not gratuitously drop leading zeroes Herbert Xu
2016-06-22 10:16 ` [PATCH 1/8] crypto: testmgr - Allow leading zeros in RSA Herbert Xu
2016-06-22 10:16 ` [PATCH 2/8] crypto: rsa - Generate fixed-length output Herbert Xu
2016-06-22 10:16 ` [PATCH 3/8] lib/mpi: Do not do sg_virt Herbert Xu
2016-06-22 10:16 ` [PATCH 4/8] crypto: rsa-pkcs1pad - Require hash to be present Herbert Xu
2016-06-22 13:20   ` Andrzej Zaborowski
2016-06-22 14:02     ` Herbert Xu
2016-06-22 14:19       ` Denis Kenzior
2016-06-22 14:20         ` Herbert Xu
2016-06-22 14:30           ` Denis Kenzior
2016-06-22 14:33             ` Herbert Xu
2016-06-22 15:39               ` Mat Martineau
2016-06-23  1:27                 ` Herbert Xu
2016-06-22 10:16 ` [PATCH 5/8] crypto: rsa-pkcs1pad - Remove bogus page splitting Herbert Xu
2016-06-22 10:16 ` [PATCH 6/8] crypto: rsa-pkcs1pad - Always use GFP_KERNEL Herbert Xu
2016-06-22 10:16 ` [PATCH 7/8] crypto: rsa-pkcs1pad - Move key size check to setkey Herbert Xu
2016-06-22 10:16 ` [PATCH 8/8] crypto: rsa-pkcs1pad - Avoid copying output when possible Herbert Xu
2016-06-23 15:25 ` crypto: rsa - Do not gratuitously drop leading zeroes Tadeusz Struk
2016-06-24 14:28   ` Herbert Xu
2016-06-24 15:25     ` Tadeusz Struk
2016-06-25  1:44       ` Herbert Xu
2016-06-24  7:27 ` Stephan Mueller
2016-06-24  8:41   ` Herbert Xu
2016-06-24  9:09     ` Stephan Mueller
2016-06-24  9:23     ` Stephan Mueller
2016-06-24  9:30       ` Herbert Xu
2016-06-29  9:56 ` [v2 PATCH 0/7] " Herbert Xu
2016-06-29  9:58   ` [v2 PATCH 1/7] crypto: rsa - Generate fixed-length output Herbert Xu
2016-06-29  9:58   ` [v2 PATCH 2/7] lib/mpi: Do not do sg_virt Herbert Xu
2016-06-29  9:58   ` [v2 PATCH 3/7] crypto: rsa-pkcs1pad - Require hash to be present Herbert Xu
2016-06-29  9:58   ` [v2 PATCH 4/7] crypto: rsa-pkcs1pad - Remove bogus page splitting Herbert Xu
2016-06-29  9:58   ` [v2 PATCH 5/7] crypto: rsa-pkcs1pad - Always use GFP_KERNEL Herbert Xu
2016-06-29  9:58   ` [v2 PATCH 6/7] crypto: rsa-pkcs1pad - Move key size check to setkey Herbert Xu
2016-06-29  9:58   ` [v2 PATCH 7/7] crypto: rsa-pkcs1pad - Avoid copying output when possible Herbert Xu
2016-06-29 10:26   ` [v3 PATCH 0/8] crypto: rsa - Do not gratuitously drop leading zeroes Herbert Xu
2016-06-29 10:29     ` [v3 PATCH 1/8] crypto: testmgr - Allow leading zeros in RSA Herbert Xu
2016-06-29 10:29     ` [v3 PATCH 2/8] crypto: rsa - Generate fixed-length output Herbert Xu
2016-06-29 11:23       ` Benedetto, Salvatore
2016-06-29 11:30         ` Herbert Xu
2016-06-29 10:29     ` [v3 PATCH 3/8] lib/mpi: Do not do sg_virt Herbert Xu
2016-06-29 10:29     ` [v3 PATCH 4/8] crypto: rsa-pkcs1pad - Require hash to be present Herbert Xu
2016-06-29 10:29     ` [v3 PATCH 5/8] crypto: rsa-pkcs1pad - Remove bogus page splitting Herbert Xu
2016-06-29 10:29     ` [v3 PATCH 6/8] crypto: rsa-pkcs1pad - Always use GFP_KERNEL Herbert Xu
2016-06-29 10:29     ` [v3 PATCH 7/8] crypto: rsa-pkcs1pad - Move key size check to setkey Herbert Xu
2016-06-29 10:29     ` [v3 PATCH 8/8] crypto: rsa-pkcs1pad - Avoid copying output when possible Herbert Xu
2016-06-29 11:31     ` [v4 PATCH 0/8] crypto: rsa - Do not gratuitously drop leading zeroes Herbert Xu
2016-06-29 11:32       ` [v4 PATCH 1/8] crypto: testmgr - Allow leading zeros in RSA Herbert Xu
2016-06-29 11:32       ` [v4 PATCH 2/8] crypto: rsa - Generate fixed-length output Herbert Xu
2016-06-29 11:32       ` [v4 PATCH 3/8] lib/mpi: Do not do sg_virt Herbert Xu
2016-06-29 11:32       ` [v4 PATCH 4/8] crypto: rsa-pkcs1pad - Require hash to be present Herbert Xu
2016-06-29 11:32       ` [v4 PATCH 5/8] crypto: rsa-pkcs1pad - Remove bogus page splitting Herbert Xu
2016-06-29 11:32       ` [v4 PATCH 6/8] crypto: rsa-pkcs1pad - Always use GFP_KERNEL Herbert Xu
2016-06-29 11:32       ` [v4 PATCH 7/8] crypto: rsa-pkcs1pad - Move key size check to setkey Herbert Xu
2016-06-29 11:32       ` [v4 PATCH 8/8] crypto: rsa-pkcs1pad - Avoid copying output when possible Herbert Xu
2016-07-02 17:55       ` [v4 PATCH 0/8] crypto: rsa - Do not gratuitously drop leading zeroes Stephan Mueller
2016-07-02 18:02         ` Stephan Mueller
2016-07-03  2:46         ` Herbert Xu
2016-07-03  5:57           ` Stephan Mueller

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