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From: <Tudor.Ambarus@microchip.com>
To: <vt@altlinux.org>, <dhowells@redhat.com>,
	<herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>, <davem@davemloft.net>,
	<keyrings@vger.kernel.org>, <linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org>,
	<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] akcipher: Introduce verify2 for public key algorithms
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2018 10:26:53 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b2e6060c-1e2a-c2c5-0484-715646d16201@microchip.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181211165938.1150-1-vt@altlinux.org>

Hi,

On 12/11/2018 06:59 PM, Vitaly Chikunov wrote:
> Current akcipher .verify() just decrypts signature to uncover message
> hash, which is then verified in upper level public_key_verify_signature
> by memcmp with the expected signature value, which is never passed into
> verify().
> 
> This approach is incompatible with ECDSA algorithms, because, to verify

I would love to have ECDSA in kernel but unfortunately it hasn't reached kernel
because there is no in-kernel user for it. Do we have an agreement that we will
add support for it? If not, who will benefit of these patches?

Thanks,
ta

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-12-13 10:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-12-11 16:59 Vitaly Chikunov
2018-12-13 10:12 ` Herbert Xu
2019-01-04 10:20   ` Vitaly Chikunov
2019-01-16 16:22   ` David Howells
2018-12-13 10:26 ` Tudor.Ambarus [this message]
2018-12-13 11:58   ` Vitaly Chikunov

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