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From: Stephan Mueller <smueller@chronox.de>
To: Mat Martineau <mathew.j.martineau@linux.intel.com>,
	herbert@gondor.apana.org.au
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
	keyrings@vger.kernel.org, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: key retention service: DH support
Date: Tue, 24 May 2016 18:45:09 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1542958.TuajgKVjUG@positron.chronox.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.OSX.2.20.1605240851210.7071@tmhoole-mobl2.amr.corp.intel.com>

Am Dienstag, 24. Mai 2016, 09:22:22 schrieb Mat Martineau:

Hi Mat, Herbert
> 
> KDF transformations would be extremely useful, but transforming the DH
> output using a KDF needs to be configurable. There are enough different
> uses for DH that it's important to have access to the raw values.
> 
> Since the KDF patches are not yet merged, I'm not sure of the best way to
> accomodate the future feature. We could future-proof KEYCTL_DH_COMPUTE by
> adding a 5th arg, an optional pointer to KDF configuration (NAME and
> LABEL). Or a separate KEYCTL_DH_COMPUTE_KDF command can be added later.

With that statement, Herbert, should we start looking into my KDF patches 
after the merge window closes?

Ciao
Stephan

  reply	other threads:[~2016-05-24 16:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-05-23 18:57 key retention service: DH support Stephan Mueller
2016-05-24  7:04 ` David Howells
2016-05-24  7:14   ` Stephan Mueller
2016-05-24  7:19     ` David Howells
2016-05-24  7:29       ` Stephan Mueller
2016-05-24 16:22         ` Mat Martineau
2016-05-24 16:45           ` Stephan Mueller [this message]
2016-05-25 10:25             ` Herbert Xu
2016-05-25 10:58           ` David Howells
2016-05-26 17:04             ` Mat Martineau

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