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| From | David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.kernel |
| Subject | Re: [PATCH v2] crypto: AF_ALG - add support for keys/asymmetric-type |
| Date | 2016-01-13 16:10 +0100 |
| Message-ID | <qQvdF-1tl-41@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
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On Wed, 2016-01-13 at 06:05 -0800, Tadeusz Struk wrote: > > I agree, ideally keyctl should do the job for all the cases and > request_key() should just return a key data. No, you can NOT RELY ON HAVING THE KEY DATA. It might be in hardware. You might have something which will perform sign/verify/encrypt/decrypt operations *with* the key at your request, but which can never just *give* you the key. Any crypto API which relies on *having* the key is fundamentally wrong. -- dwmw2
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Re: [PATCH v2] crypto: AF_ALG - add support for keys/asymmetric-type David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-01-13 14:40 +0100
Re: [PATCH v2] crypto: AF_ALG - add support for keys/asymmetric-type Tadeusz Struk <tadeusz.struk@intel.com> - 2016-01-13 15:10 +0100
Re: [PATCH v2] crypto: AF_ALG - add support for keys/asymmetric-type David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> - 2016-01-13 16:10 +0100
Re: [PATCH v2] crypto: AF_ALG - add support for keys/asymmetric-type Tadeusz Struk <tadeusz.struk@intel.com> - 2016-01-13 17:20 +0100
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