Re: [PATCH 3/3] encrypted-keys: document new fscrypt key format

From: André Draszik
Date: Fri Jan 19 2018 - 04:17:13 EST


Thank you Ted,

On Wed, 2018-01-17 at 13:05 -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 02:38:59PM +0000, Andrà Draszik wrote:
> > > > [...]
> > >
> > > Please be very clear about exactly what security properties are
> > > achieved
> > > by
> > > using encrypted-keys.
> >
> > I've left out all of this in the updated documentation, as any such
> > information should probably be in Documentation/security/keys/trusted-
> > encrypted.rst in the first place.
>
> Where is this document going to be found / when will it be written?
> It seems really odd to be requesting a do code review when the
> specifications aren't available and/or haven't been written yet. I
> prefer to review the *design* first, as opposed to trying to both
> review the code and try to guess at the design and review my guess of
> the design at the same time....

Does v3's commit message https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10173189/ serve
as a good enough design document?

Cheers,
Andre'