Re: [PATCH v7 4/7] crypto: add ecc curve and expose them

[Herbert Xu]

On Thu, Jan 28, 2021 at 09:49:41PM -0500, Stefan Berger wrote:
>
> In my patch series I initially had registered the akciphers under the names
> ecc-nist-p192 and ecc-nist-p256 but now, in V4, joined them together as
> 'ecdsa'. This may be too generic for a name. Maybe it should be called
> ecsda-nist for the NIST family.

What I'm proposing is specifying the curve in the name as well, i.e.,
ecdsa-nist-p192 instead of just ecdsa or ecdsa-nist.

This simplifies the task of handling hardware that only supports a
subset of curves.

There is a parallel discussion of exactly what curves we should
support in the kernel.  Personally if there is a user in the kernel
for it then I'm happy to see it added.  In your specific case, as
long as your use of the algorithm in x509 is accepted then I don't
have any problems with adding support in the Crypto API.

Cheers,
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