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From: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>
To: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@microchip.com>,
	Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com>,
	Claudiu Beznea <claudiu.beznea@tuxon.dev>
Cc: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>,
	linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] crypto: atmel-i2c - improve comment in atmel_i2c_init_ecdh_cmd
Date: Wed,  3 Jun 2026 21:27:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260603192708.1237715-4-thorsten.blum@linux.dev> (raw)

Clarify that a P-256 public key is encoded as two 32-byte coordinates.

Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>
---
 drivers/crypto/atmel-i2c.c | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/crypto/atmel-i2c.c b/drivers/crypto/atmel-i2c.c
index ff19857894d0..24bded47a32b 100644
--- a/drivers/crypto/atmel-i2c.c
+++ b/drivers/crypto/atmel-i2c.c
@@ -138,9 +138,8 @@ int atmel_i2c_init_ecdh_cmd(struct atmel_i2c_cmd *cmd,
 	cmd->param2 = cpu_to_le16(DATA_SLOT_2);
 
 	/*
-	 * The device only supports NIST P256 ECC keys. The public key size will
-	 * always be the same. Use a macro for the key size to avoid unnecessary
-	 * computations.
+	 * The device only supports P-256. Its public key is encoded as
+	 * two 32-byte coordinates.
 	 */
 	copied = sg_copy_to_buffer(pubkey,
 				   sg_nents_for_len(pubkey,


             reply	other threads:[~2026-06-03 19:27 UTC|newest]

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2026-06-03 19:27 Thorsten Blum [this message]
2026-06-03 19:27 ` [PATCH 2/2] crypto: atmel-ecc - clean up and improve ECDH comments Thorsten Blum

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