From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
To: Nitin Kumbhar <nkumbhar@nvidia.com>
Cc: davem@davemloft.net, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] Add support for ECDSA algorithm
Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2017 21:57:21 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170202135721.GA5289@gondor.apana.org.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <113d3ef8-ef34-0651-71e7-be09ef55727e@nvidia.com>
On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 11:30:04AM +0530, Nitin Kumbhar wrote:
>
> This ECDSA implementation is analogous to the RSA kernel implementation for
> signature generation / verification. It extends ECC family of algorithms
> like ECDH to support signature verification using akcipher. This will be
> used in a way similar to RSA.
Yes but RSA had an in-kernel user in the form of module signature
verification. We don't add algorithms to the kernel without
actual users. So this patch-set needs to come with an actual
in-kernel user of ECDSA.
Thanks,
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-02-02 13:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-01-20 11:35 [PATCH 0/6] Add support for ECDSA algorithm Nitin Kumbhar
2017-01-20 11:35 ` [PATCH 1/6] crypto: ecc: separate out ecc and ecdh Nitin Kumbhar
2017-01-20 11:35 ` [PATCH 2/6] crypto: ecc: add vli and ecc ops Nitin Kumbhar
2017-01-20 11:35 ` [PATCH 3/6] crypto: ecc: export " Nitin Kumbhar
2017-01-20 11:35 ` [PATCH 4/6] crypto: ecdsa: add ECDSA SW implementation Nitin Kumbhar
2017-01-20 13:06 ` Stephan Müller
2017-01-26 5:52 ` Nitin Kumbhar
2017-01-20 11:36 ` [PATCH 5/6] crypto: testmgr: add ECDSA tests Nitin Kumbhar
2017-01-20 13:19 ` Stephan Müller
2017-01-26 5:58 ` Nitin Kumbhar
2017-01-20 11:36 ` [PATCH 6/6] crypto: tcrypt: add ECDSA test modes Nitin Kumbhar
2017-01-23 14:24 ` [PATCH 0/6] Add support for ECDSA algorithm Herbert Xu
2017-01-26 6:00 ` Nitin Kumbhar
2017-01-26 7:44 ` Stephan Müller
2017-02-02 13:57 ` Herbert Xu [this message]
2017-02-03 11:16 ` Nitin Kumbhar
2017-02-06 14:47 ` Stephan Müller
2017-08-22 16:14 ` Tudor Ambarus
2017-08-22 17:22 ` Sandy Harris
2017-08-23 13:40 ` Tudor Ambarus
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