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From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, Ondrej Mosnacek <omosnace@redhat.com>,
	linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
	keyrings@vger.kernel.org, Stephan Mueller <smueller@chronox.de>,
	Milan Broz <gmazyland@gmail.com>,
	Ondrej Kozina <okozina@redhat.com>,
	Daniel Zatovic <dzatovic@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] crypto: af_alg - implement keyring support
Date: Tue, 21 May 2019 22:18:29 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <29983.1558473509@warthog.procyon.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <A3BC3B07-6446-4631-862A-F661FB9D63B9@holtmann.org>

Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org> wrote:

> why use the description instead the actual key id? I wonder if a single
> socket option and a struct providing the key type and key id might be more
> useful.

If the key becomes invalid in some way, you can call request_key() again if
you have the description to get a new key.  This is how afs and af_rxrpc do
things on the client side.

David

  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-05-21 21:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-05-21 10:00 [PATCH] crypto: af_alg - implement keyring support Ondrej Mosnacek
2019-05-21 10:47 ` Marcel Holtmann
2019-05-21 11:02   ` Ondrej Mosnacek
2019-05-21 11:30     ` Ondrej Kozina
2019-05-21 19:15 ` Stephan Müller
2019-05-21 21:18 ` David Howells [this message]
2019-05-25  3:10 ` Eric Biggers
2019-05-25  7:04   ` Milan Broz
2019-05-29 13:54   ` Ondrej Mosnacek
2019-05-30  7:14 ` Herbert Xu
2019-05-30 11:35   ` Ondrej Mosnacek
2019-05-30 13:22     ` Herbert Xu
2019-05-30  7:39 ` Milan Broz

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