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From: smueller@chronox.de (Stephan Mueller)
To: linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [tpmdd-devel] in-kernel user of ecdsa
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2018 22:57:28 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4913167.EB42K91l1O@tauon.chronox.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1520891735.4522.45.camel@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Am Montag, 12. M?rz 2018, 22:55:35 CET schrieb James Bottomley:

Hi James,

> > ECDSA is not implemented currently in the kernel crypto API.
> 
> an ECDSA signature is produced as a ECDH operation using the DSA
> algorithm instead of KDFe, so it's trivial with what we have; signature
> verification involves a separate point addition but we have all the
> primitives for this in crypto/ecc.c so adding it isn't really
> difficult, is it?

No, it is not. There even was a patch posted about a year ago to add ECDSA. 
But it was rejected due to missing in-kernel users. I guess that patch could 
be reactivated.

Ciao
Stephan


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  reply	other threads:[~2018-03-12 21:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-03-12 17:07 in-kernel user of ecdsa Tudor Ambarus
2018-03-12 18:09 ` [tpmdd-devel] " James Bottomley
2018-03-12 19:56   ` Stephan Mueller
2018-03-12 21:55     ` James Bottomley
2018-03-12 21:57       ` Stephan Mueller [this message]
2018-03-26 14:59 ` Tudor Ambarus

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