From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: Mat Martineau <mathew.j.martineau@linux.intel.com>
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, Stephan Mueller <smueller@chronox.de>,
keyrings@vger.kernel.org, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: key retention service: DH support
Date: Wed, 25 May 2016 11:58:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <311.1464173906@warthog.procyon.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.OSX.2.20.1605240851210.7071@tmhoole-mobl2.amr.corp.intel.com>
Mat Martineau <mathew.j.martineau@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> 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).
If we want to do this, it needs to be done before the merge window closes,
maybe by -rc2. Just requiring the extra argument to be 0 for now and/or
extending struct keyctl_dh_params to include some must-be-zeroed spare space
would do for now.
David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-05-25 10:58 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
2016-05-25 10:25 ` Herbert Xu
2016-05-25 10:58 ` David Howells [this message]
2016-05-26 17:04 ` Mat Martineau
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