Re: [PATCH v7 4/7] crypto: add ecc curve and expose them

[Ard Biesheuvel]

On Mon, 8 Feb 2021 at 07:37, Vitaly Chikunov <vt@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Herbert,
>
> On Fri, Jan 29, 2021 at 02:00:04PM +1100, Herbert Xu wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 28, 2021 at 09:49:41PM -0500, Stefan Berger wrote:
> > >
> > > In my patch series I initially had registered the akciphers under the names
> > > ecc-nist-p192 and ecc-nist-p256 but now, in V4, joined them together as
> > > 'ecdsa'. This may be too generic for a name. Maybe it should be called
> > > ecsda-nist for the NIST family.
> >
> > What I'm proposing is specifying the curve in the name as well, i.e.,
> > ecdsa-nist-p192 instead of just ecdsa or ecdsa-nist.
> >
> > This simplifies the task of handling hardware that only supports a
> > subset of curves.
>
> So, if some implementation supports multiple curves (like EC-RDSA
> currently supports 5 curves), it should add 5 ecrdsa-{a,b,c,..}
> algorithms with actually the same top level implementation?
> Right?
>

Yes. The only difference will be the init() function, which can be
used to set the TFM properties that define which curve is being used.
The other routines can be generic, and refer to those properties if
the behavior is curve-specific.


>
> > There is a parallel discussion of exactly what curves we should
> > support in the kernel.  Personally if there is a user in the kernel
> > for it then I'm happy to see it added.  In your specific case, as
> > long as your use of the algorithm in x509 is accepted then I don't
> > have any problems with adding support in the Crypto API.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > --
> > Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/
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