Re: [PATCH RFC v4 2/4] crypto: add PKE API

[Herbert Xu]

On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 03:00:42AM +0200, Stephan Mueller wrote:
>
> The testmgr code can mark an entire cipher implementation as fips_allowed=1 as 
> already done for RSA. However, unlike with the other ciphers, that flag must 
> go in conjunction with the used key sizes.
> 
> For FIPS mode, the following restrictions apply:
> 
> - RSA: 2048/3072
> 
> - DSA: L 2048 / N 224; L 2048 / N 256; L 3072 / N 256
> 
> - ECDSA: only the NIST curves
> 
> Any other key sizes for the given ciphers is not allowed in FIPS mode.
> 
> Should that constraint be considered here?

Yes.  However it should be placed into a helper that everybody
can call so that future hardware implementations can also make
the same checks.

Cheers,
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