Re: [PATCH 00/22] KEYS: Support TPM-wrapped key and crypto ops

[David Howells]

David Woodhouse <dwmw2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> You are passing the raw DER to the kernel in both cases, right?

I haven't put a PEM stripper and base64 decoder into the kernel, though we
certainly could do that.  We could even do the decode in-place in the same
buffer since the resulting data would be smaller than the original.

> And the kernel just happens to know that if it receives a bare OCTET-STRING
> it's supposed to treat it as a TPMv1.2 key?

It passes it to each parser in turn till one says it can parse it.  It's not
ideal, but it seems to work - so far.  Better would be to annotate it in some
way.  I have considered annotating the type field so that the payload doesn't
have to have it added:

	keyctl padd asymmetric.x509 "" @s </tmp/foo.x509
	keyctl padd asymmetric.pkcs#8 ...
	keyctl padd asymmetric.tpm ...

However, this doesn't work with "keyctl update" or "keyctl instantiate".

David