Re: [PATCH] KEYS: Add ECDH support

[Denis Kenzior]

Hi Eric,

> Amusingly, the existing KEYCTL_DH_* APIs, and the KEYCTL_ECDH_* APIs proposed by
> this patch, only operate on user keys that the process has READ access to.  This
> means that the keys can be trivially extracted by a shell script running in your
> user session.  That's *less* secure than using an isolated process...

I can see this being true for user or session keys, but I don't think this is 
true of process or thread specific keys.  At least I couldn't read any keys out 
of a test app when I tried.

Regards,
-Denis