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Re: [RFC PATCH 2/8] KEYS: Provide keyctls to drive the new key type ops for asymmetric keys [ver 3]

From David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [RFC PATCH 2/8] KEYS: Provide keyctls to drive the new key type ops for asymmetric keys [ver 3]
Date 2016-05-12 12:20 +0200
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Mat Martineau <mathew.j.martineau@linux.intel.com> wrote:

> > +     If the key must be unlocked with a password before it can be used,
> > +     password_id should point to a logon-type key that holds this.
> 
> It should be noted that the password_id should be 0 if no password is to be
> used.

Currently I'm just ignoring it if I don't need it, but this makes more sense.

David

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[RFC PATCH 0/8] KEYS: keyctl operations for asymmetric keys [ver 3] David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-05-11 16:30 +0200
  [RFC PATCH 3/8] KEYS: Provide missing asymmetric key subops for new  key type ops [ver 3] David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-05-11 16:30 +0200
  [RFC PATCH 2/8] KEYS: Provide keyctls to drive the new key type ops  for asymmetric keys [ver 3] David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-05-11 16:30 +0200
    Re: [RFC PATCH 2/8] KEYS: Provide keyctls to drive the new key type  ops for asymmetric keys [ver 3] Mat Martineau <mathew.j.martineau@linux.intel.com> - 2016-05-12 00:20 +0200
      Re: [RFC PATCH 2/8] KEYS: Provide keyctls to drive the new key type ops for asymmetric keys [ver 3] David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-05-12 12:20 +0200
      Re: [RFC PATCH 2/8] KEYS: Provide keyctls to drive the new key type  ops for asymmetric keys [ver 3] David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> - 2016-05-12 13:10 +0200
  [RFC PATCH 7/8] KEYS: Implement encrypt,  decrypt and sign for software asymmetric key [ver 3] David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-05-11 16:30 +0200
  [RFC PATCH 5/8] KEYS: Provide software public key query function  [ver 3] David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-05-11 16:30 +0200
    Re: [RFC PATCH 5/8] KEYS: Provide software public key query function  [ver 3] Mat Martineau <mathew.j.martineau@linux.intel.com> - 2016-05-12 02:00 +0200
      Re: [RFC PATCH 5/8] KEYS: Provide software public key query function  [ver 3] Tadeusz Struk <tstruk@gmail.com> - 2016-05-12 02:20 +0200
      Re: [RFC PATCH 5/8] KEYS: Provide software public key query function [ver 3] David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-05-12 12:20 +0200
        Re: [RFC PATCH 5/8] KEYS: Provide software public key query function  [ver 3] Mat Martineau <mathew.j.martineau@linux.intel.com> - 2016-05-12 19:10 +0200
  [RFC PATCH 1/8] KEYS: Provide key type operations for asymmetric  key ops [ver 3] David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-05-11 16:30 +0200
  [RFC PATCH 8/8] KEYS: Implement PKCS#8 RSA Private Key parser [ver  3] David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-05-11 16:30 +0200
    Re: [RFC PATCH 8/8] KEYS: Implement PKCS#8 RSA Private Key parser  [ver 3] David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> - 2016-05-11 21:20 +0200
    Re: [RFC PATCH 8/8] KEYS: Implement PKCS#8 RSA Private Key parser  [ver 3] Mat Martineau <mathew.j.martineau@linux.intel.com> - 2016-05-12 02:20 +0200
      Re: [RFC PATCH 8/8] KEYS: Implement PKCS#8 RSA Private Key parser [ver 3] David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-05-12 12:30 +0200
  [RFC PATCH 4/8] KEYS: Make the X.509 and PKCS7 parsers supply the  sig encoding type [ver 3] David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-05-11 16:30 +0200
  [RFC PATCH 6/8] KEYS: Allow the public_key struct to hold a private  key [ver 3] David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-05-11 16:30 +0200

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