Re: [PATCH 0/4] crypto: add ECDSA signature support to key retention service

[Herbert Xu]

On Thu, Sep 08, 2022 at 09:00:32PM +0100, Ignat Korchagin wrote:
> Kernel Key Retention Service[1] is a useful building block to build secure
> production key management systems. One of its interesting features is
> support for asymmetric keys: we can allow a process to use a certain key
> (decrypt or sign data) without actually allowing the process to read the
> cryptographic key material. By doing so we protect our code from certain
> type of attacks, where a process memory memory leak actually leaks a
> potentially highly sensitive cryptographic material.
> 
> But unfortunately only RSA algorithm was supported until now, because
> in-kernel ECDSA implementation supported signature verifications only.
> 
> This patchset implements in-kernel ECDSA signature generation and adds
> support for ECDSA signing in the key retention service. The key retention
> service support was taken out of a previous unmerged patchset from Lei He[2]
> 
> [1]: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/security/keys/core.html
> [2]: https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-crypto/list/?series=653034&state=*
> 
> Ignat Korchagin (2):
>   crypto: add ECDSA signature generation support
>   crypto: add ECDSA test vectors from RFC 6979
> 
> lei he (2):
>   crypto: pkcs8 parser support ECDSA private keys
>   crypto: remove unused field in pkcs8_parse_context
> 
>  crypto/Kconfig                        |   3 +-
>  crypto/Makefile                       |   4 +-
>  crypto/asymmetric_keys/pkcs8.asn1     |   2 +-
>  crypto/asymmetric_keys/pkcs8_parser.c |  46 +++-
>  crypto/ecc.c                          |   9 +-
>  crypto/ecdsa.c                        | 373 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  crypto/ecprivkey.asn1                 |   6 +
>  crypto/testmgr.c                      |  18 ++
>  crypto/testmgr.h                      | 333 +++++++++++++++++++++++
>  include/crypto/internal/ecc.h         |  11 +
>  10 files changed, 788 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 crypto/ecprivkey.asn1
> 
> --
> 2.36.1

I need acks for patches 3-4 from David.  Thanks!
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