Re: [PATCH RFC 0/2] crypto: Introduce Public Key Encryption API

[Tadeusz Struk]

Hi Horia,
On 05/04/2015 06:16 AM, Horia GeantÄ wrote:
>> 	int (*sign)(struct pke_request *pkereq);
>> > 	int (*verify)(struct pke_request *pkereq);
>> > 	int (*encrypt)(struct pke_request *pkereq);
>> > 	int (*decrypt)(struct pke_request *pkereq);
> Where would be the proper place for keygen operation?

This will need to be extended to support keygen.

> 
> AFAICT algorithms currently map to primitives + encoding methods, which
> is not flexible. For e.g. current RSA implementation hardcodes the
> PKCS1-v1_5 encoding method, making it hard to add OAEP(+) etc.
> 
> One solution would be to map algorithms to primitives only. Encoding
> methods need to be abstracted somehow, maybe using templates to wrap the
> algorithms.

So far there is only one rsa implementation in kernel and it is only used
by module signing code.
Later we can add templates or simply one can register "oaep-rsa" algorithm.

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