From: Stephan Mueller <smueller@chronox.de>
To: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Cc: Mat Martineau <mathew.j.martineau@linux.intel.com>,
Andrew Zaborowski <balrogg@googlemail.com>,
Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
Linux Crypto Mailing List <linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org>,
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
David Woodhouse <david@woodhou.se>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 0/4] crypto: add algif_akcipher user space API
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2017 09:23:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2880013.tS8KcRZytZ@tauon.chronox.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <959CA6EF-E63F-4116-A02C-153D5C436879@holtmann.org>
Am Montag, 14. August 2017, 08:26:22 CEST schrieb Marcel Holtmann:
Hi Marcel,
> > The first part is clearly where AF_ALG fits and keyctl does not. This is
> > provided with the current patch set. As the keyctl API only handles, well,
> > keys, access to the raw ciphers may not be possible through this API. And
> > let us face it, a lot of user space code shall support many different
> > OSes. Thus, if you have a crypto lib in user space who has its own key
> > management (which is a core element of such libraries and thus cannot be
> > put into an architecture-dependent code part), having only the keyctl API
> > on Linux for accelerated asym support may not be helpful.
>
> That argument is just non-sense.
How interesting. For example, what about NSS with its own key database?
Ciao
Stephan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-08-14 7:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-08-10 6:39 [PATCH v8 0/4] crypto: add algif_akcipher user space API Stephan Müller
2017-08-10 6:39 ` [PATCH v8 1/4] crypto: AF_ALG -- add sign/verify API Stephan Müller
2017-08-10 12:49 ` Tudor Ambarus
2017-08-10 13:03 ` Stephan Mueller
2017-08-10 13:59 ` Tudor Ambarus
2017-08-10 14:06 ` Stephan Müller
2017-08-10 6:39 ` [PATCH v8 2/4] crypto: AF_ALG -- add setpubkey setsockopt call Stephan Müller
2017-08-10 6:40 ` [PATCH v8 3/4] crypto: AF_ALG -- add asymmetric cipher Stephan Müller
2017-08-11 12:51 ` Tudor Ambarus
2017-08-19 13:53 ` Stephan Müller
2017-08-21 8:55 ` Tudor Ambarus
2017-08-21 9:23 ` Tudor Ambarus
2017-08-21 9:39 ` Stephan Mueller
2017-08-10 6:40 ` [PATCH v8 4/4] crypto: algif_akcipher - enable compilation Stephan Müller
2017-08-11 12:56 ` Tudor Ambarus
2017-08-11 13:03 ` Stephan Mueller
2017-08-11 0:48 ` [PATCH v8 0/4] crypto: add algif_akcipher user space API Mat Martineau
2017-08-11 5:13 ` Marcel Holtmann
2017-08-11 6:30 ` Stephan Müller
2017-08-11 16:02 ` Marcel Holtmann
2017-08-14 6:24 ` Stephan Mueller
2017-08-14 6:42 ` Marcel Holtmann
2017-08-11 7:18 ` Stephan Mueller
2017-08-11 16:05 ` Marcel Holtmann
2017-08-13 8:52 ` Gilad Ben-Yossef
2017-08-14 6:01 ` Stephan Mueller
2017-08-17 13:17 ` Tudor Ambarus
2017-08-30 6:15 ` Tudor Ambarus
2017-08-30 7:21 ` Marcel Holtmann
2017-08-30 8:17 ` Tudor Ambarus
2017-08-30 12:36 ` Marcel Holtmann
2017-08-11 10:18 ` Andrew Zaborowski
2017-08-11 19:43 ` Mat Martineau
2017-08-14 6:03 ` Stephan Mueller
2017-08-14 6:26 ` Marcel Holtmann
2017-08-14 7:23 ` Stephan Mueller [this message]
2017-08-14 9:26 ` Marcel Holtmann
2017-10-02 14:15 ` Tudor Ambarus
2017-10-03 0:09 ` Mat Martineau
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