Re: [PATCH RFC v3 2/3] crypto: RSA: KEYS: convert rsa and public key to new PKE API

[Tadeusz Struk]

On 06/03/2015 11:53 PM, Herbert Xu wrote:
> I'd like to see this split into multiple patches.  First of all
> the new crypto_akcipher implementation should coexist with the
> existing code.  That way the exiting users can be converted over
> one-by-one.
> 
> Also you should implement the crypto_akcipher completely before
> converting anybody over, that means doing encoding/wrapping in
> addition to the crypto.
> 
> That way we don't have to have craziness like converting in and
> out of MPI multiple times.

That's cool. It will make it easier for me. I wanted to convert
one to show that the interface is working.

> 
> Lastly you should consider adding an MPI helper that writes to
> an existing buffer instead of allocating a new one and copying
> it over.

I'll think about something.

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