Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] crypto: Allow working with key references

[Harald Freudenberger]

On 30.05.19 09:23, Richard Weinberger wrote:
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>> Von: "Herbert Xu" <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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>> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 30. Mai 2019 04:33:57
>> Betreff: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] crypto: Allow working with key references
>> On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 12:48:43AM +0200, Richard Weinberger wrote:
>>> Some crypto accelerators allow working with secure or hidden keys.
>>> This keys are not exposed to Linux nor main memory. To use them
>>> for a crypto operation they are referenced with a device specific id.
>>>
>>> This patch adds a new flag, CRYPTO_TFM_REQ_REF_KEY.
>>> If this flag is set, crypto drivers should tread the key as
>>> specified via setkey as reference and not as regular key.
>>> Since we reuse the key data structure such a reference is limited
>>> by the key size of the chiper and is chip specific.
>>>
>>> TODO: If the cipher implementation or the driver does not
>>> support reference keys, we need a way to detect this an fail
>>> upon setkey.
>>> How should the driver indicate that it supports this feature?
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@xxxxxx>
>> We already have existing drivers doing this.  Please have a look
>> at how they're doing it and use the same paradigm.  You can grep
>> for paes under drivers/crypto.
> Thanks for the pointer.
> So the preferred way is defining a new crypto algorithm prefixed with
> "p" and reusing setkey to provide the key reference.
The "p" in paes is because we call it "protected key aes". I think you are not limited
to the "p". What Herbert tries to point out is that you may define your own
cipher with an unique name and there you can handle your secure key references
as you like. You may use the s390 paes implementation as a starting point.

regards Harald Freudenberger <freude@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

>
> Thanks,
> //richard
>