Re: [RFC PATCH 1/4] X.509: Parse public key parameters from x509 for akcipher

[Vitaly Chikunov]

Herbert,

On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 02:14:44PM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 24, 2019 at 09:48:40AM +0300, Vitaly Chikunov wrote:
> > 
> > If we pass SubjectPublicKeyInfo into set_pub_key itself (making
> > set_params not needed) we will break ABI and compatibility with RSA
> > drivers, because whole SubjectPublicKeyInfo is not expected by the
> 
> This compatibility does not matter.  We can always add translating
> layers into the crypto API to deal with this.  The only ABI that
> matters is the one to user-space.

It seems that you insist on set_params to be removed and both key and
params to be passed into set_{pub,priv}_key. This means reworking all
existing RSA drivers and callers, right? Can you please confirm that
huge rework to avoid misunderstanding?

I think to pass SubjectPublicKeyInfo into set_*_key would be overkill,
because TPM drivers may not have it and we would need BER encoder just
for that.

So, probably, something simple like length, key data, length, params data
will be enough?

Thanks,